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DOCUMENT Full-Text Cameron S. Griffith.

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland), was contracted by Salt River Project (SRP) to perform a Class III cultural resources survey for proposed SRP receiving station site RS # 3, associated transmission line (230 kV and 65 kV) right-of-way corridors, and alternatives. The survey was conducted from 30 October to 3 November 1995. The work involved 11 person days of labor. No significant archaeological resources were encountered.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert Autobee.

Humanity's resourcefulness inspired two attempts to draw life out of the desolation of Central Arizona's Salt River Valley over the past 1,500 years. Building over the remains of an irrigation culture left behind by lost Indian tribe, the Hohokam, federal and private engineers of the early 20th Century adapted much when the United States Reclamation Service completed first its major work, the Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The scale of Reclamation's plans separate the two efforts. The Roosevelt Dam...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alexander J. Lindsay, Jr..

This appendix contains cost estimates for mitigation of 47 archaeological sites within the Coronado Generating Station plant site coal haul railroad right-of-way. It consists primarily of tables of costs, broken down by category, personnel, equipment, and other variables. Major sections include a cost schedule for archaeological investigations; project development costs; time, labor, and equipment estimates for archaeological excavations; cost estimate sums for excavation; project analysis and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. James Trott.

At the request of Salt River Project, the Museum of Northern Arizona has prepared a proposal and cost estimate for Phase III investigations along the proposed Salt River Project Coronado Generating Station Coal Haul Railroad. These Phase III investigations will consist of an impact mitigation program designed to recover that portion of the archaeological manifestations located within the right-of-way of the proposed Coal Haul Railroad. A total of 47 archaeological sites are recorded within the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul R. Fish.

At the request of Salt River Project, four potential substation sites for the Cholla-Dinosaur transmission line were intensively surveyed by the Museum of Northern Arizona. The four alternative substation locations are in the Tonto National Forest near Superior, Arizona. Two of the substation localities contained archaeological remains. Reconnaissance level survey of access roads leading to the substations was also undertaken.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Howard M. Davidson.

Prehistoric site NA13,886 is an extensive archaeological resource exhibiting profuse quantities of artifacts which appear to represent a very wide range of human activities. The proposed Salt River Project Coronado to Dinosaur 500 kV transmission line right-of-way is currently oriented so as to bisect this site. A recent SRP-sponsored field evaluation of this site was undertaken by the Museum in order to establish the site's qualities and thus its significance and determine costs for various...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jim Bailey.

The Salt River Project Diversion and Conveyance Historic District consists of nine main canals, the diversion dam that feeds water to those canals, and one hydropower plant situated on one of those canals. The contributing properties are: Granite Reef Diversion Dam (a structure); the Southside Gatekeeper’s house at the dam (a building); three canals serving land on the north side of the Salt River (the Arizona, Grand, and New Crosscut canals, all structures); six canals serving land on the south...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Effland.

Salt River Project (SRP) proposes to construct a 230 kV transmission line to connect the Pinnacle Peak, Brandow, and Papago Buttes substations. Archaeological Consulting Services (ACS) was contracted to perform an assessment of impacts to cultural resources that would be caused by the project. ACS is responsible for assessing potential impacts to historical and archaeological sites as well as architectural resources in the vicinity of the new right-of -way. One hundred percent survey of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bill J. Gossett.

On December 17-18, 1976, at the request of the Salt River Project, the Museum of Northern Arizona conducted an archaeological survey of the proposed Coal Haul Railroad Wye and an area selected as a Repair and Welding Workshop, both areas on private land. The area was surveyed from west to east beginning at surveyors stake No. 1, to a point 150 meters east and parallel to the railroad right-of-way base line. The area chosen as a repair and welding workshop includes an 800 ft. x 3000 ft. tract of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lynne MacDonald. Jim Bailey.

Pursuant to a 2009 Programmatic Agreement between the Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office, the Salt River Project, and the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office, the Bureau of Reclamation prepared documentation formally nominating the Salt River Project system of dams and main canals to the National Register of Historic Places (Register). The Salt River Project Multiple Property Submission (MPS) was formally accepted and listed on the Register on August 7, 2017. This is the Salt...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David N. Siegel. James E. Bradford.

Between January 27 and February 15, and February 25 to May 6, 1974, the Museum of Northern Arizona acted as a consultant to Wirth Associates to study a series of alternate transmission line corridors to connect proposed Salt River Project coal-fired power plants at either the Snowflake or St. Johns localities to three substations in the Phoenix area. Then from April 11 to May 3, 1974, the Museum was contracted by Bechtel Power Corporation to complete Phase I survey investigations of the proposed...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Eileen Camilli.

Between February 18, 1976 and April 25, 1976 archaeological field work was conducted on the Coronado Generating Station ash disposal area and evaporation pond site for the Salt River Project, During this time 3.25 square miles were surveyed and 33 sites recorded. In addition to the fieldwork, analytical and write up phases of the project were carried out between May 3 and July 19, 1976. These phases provide a description and analysis of archaeological sites and artifactual materials from the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. James Trott. Gale M. McPherson.

During the months of April and May, 1976, Salt River Project requested that the Museum of Northern Arizona inspect a number of test pit and bore hole locations along the proposed Coronado Generating Station Coal Haul Railroad. Proposed test locations were examined along three alternative alignments, Realignment 1, Realignment 2, and the Western Alignment. A total of 19 archaeological sites were found during these investigations. Based on the data collected during this time, numerical evaluations...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. James Trott.

At the request of Salt River Project, an evaluation of Realignments 1 and 2 of the proposed D-2 alignment of the Coronado Generating Station Coal Haul Railroad has been prepared. Archaeological investigations of both realignments were conducted on two occasions. On April 13, 1976, an aerial reconnaissance of the realignments was conducted and on May 3-7, 1976, the proposed locations of 24 bore holes and 19 test pits, located along the realignment were surveyed. Based on information collected...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William S. Marmaduke.

Responding to a request from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Phoenix District, the Museum of Northern Arizona has prepared a description of work that the Museum will undertake at sites on BLM managed lands during the Coronado Station Archaeological Project. The total number of BLM sites impacted by Coronado Station construction is seven: five sites (NA's 14,638; 14,640; 14,642; 14,650; 15,208) in right-of-way of the Coal Haul Railroad, and two sites (NA13,911 and NA14,869) in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Desert Archaeology Inc..

This proposal is Desert Archaeology's response to Salt River Project’s request for archaeological testing at the Kyrene Generating Station in Tempe, Arizona. This proposal presents an efficient program to determine if significant cultural resources are present within the project area. The program is designed to address the needs of Salt River Project for phased investigations within a specified time frame and in a cost-effective manner. Our work combines high professional standards with...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. W. Crenshaw.

A promotional pamphlet to entice people to move to "A Land of Sunshine, Health and Prosperity. A Soil Unsurpassed in Productiveness. A Country of Wonderful Opportunities." by the Commissioner of Immigration of Maricopa County. "For sometime the tide of immigration has been turned towards the great Southwest and in recent years, by reason of the possibilities and opportunities offered in mining, stock raising and agricultural pursuits, Arizona, which for so long a time was regarded as a desert...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Environmental Services Group, ENTRANCO, Inc..

This Environmental Assessment (EA) has been prepared at the request of the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC) to evaluate Salt River Project (SRP) proposed plans to perform major maintenance to two 69 kilovolt (kV) subtransmission lines within an SRP power line utility corridor easement. Although this project is not a Federal undertaking or action, this EA has been prepared in accordance with the guidelines contained in the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Manual Release No. 9303,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Fred Andersen.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation was created by Congress in 1902 to build irrigation projects in the West. The Salt River Project, as one of the first reclamation projects, in a sense owes its life to the Bureau. However, the passage of the Reclamation Act was due in large part to the political influence of private citizens in the West, with prominent roles played by citizens of the Salt River Valley. So the Bureau at least partly owes its life to the Salt River Project. The two organizations have...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jim Bailey.

Stewart Mountain Dam, constructed between 1928 and 1930, was the third dam built by the Salt River Valley Valley Water Users' Association (Association) in its aggressive, and privately-funded, hydroelectric expansion program. In 1936, the Bureau of Reclamation modified the spillway discharge channel, reconditioned hoisting equipment for the radial gates, and installed individual gate operating motors. Stewart Mountain Dam consists of the dam, the left abutment spillway, and the powerhouse. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David H. Greenwald.

Early settlement of the Cottonwood Seep Site consisted of small, informal pit structures and large jacal surface structures that were used on a seasonal basis for a period from approximately A.D. 500 until about A.D. 800. This paper examines the structure and organization of the Basketmaker III settlement, focusing on group organization, site function, resource availability, and environmental considerations. Unlike many of the surrounding Basketmaker III field house sites, the Cottonwood Seep...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Bild.

The Salt River Project (SRP), Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD), and Ducks Unlimited (DU) are involved in a cooperative project designed to expand and rehabilitate wetlands for Yuma clapper rail habitat at the Arlington Wildlife Area (AWA), Maricopa County, Arizona. The project area is located on AZGFD land on the west side of the Gila River. The project area consists of a 14.4-acre AZGFD parcel that measures 2,264 ft (690 m) north-south by 262 to 328 ft (80 to 100 m) east-west. Project...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Howard M. Davidson. Michael D. Metcalf.

The Museum of Northern Arizona developed a location analysis research design for Phase II archaeological investigations of the proposed transmission line corridor route for the Arizona Station Project. Through coupling this research design with a survey of sample archaeological units in the corridor areas, a projection of archaeological sensitivity was generated. This projection was based on a categorization of the total study areas in terms of environmental sensitivity to each. Variable for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Holly S. DeMaagd.

At the request of Janice Cunningham of U.S. West Communication (US West), Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) performed subsurface testing along a proposed utility (fiber optic communication cable) right-of-way. The right-of-way will be located within the southern access road for the Grand Canal, which passes through Pueblo Grande Historic Landmark (Pueblo Grande). The canal is owned by the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) and administered by the Salt River Project (SRP)....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard A. Brook.

Wirth Associates contracted with the Museum of Northern Arizona to conduct an archaeological impact study of a proposed Salt River Project Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Routing Alternate to Westwing Receiving Station. This study delineates areas with three levels of potential site occurence for the project area, and investigates potential effects on the cultural resources of the alternative corridors proposed by Salt River Project. A short data gathering phase, prior to field work,...