Salt River Project Digital Library

DOCUMENT Full-Text David R. Hart.

The Class III cultural resources survey was requested by the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District in order to assess the nature and extent of possible cultural resources present within the proposed project area. The project area is the intended location of a satellite switchyard for the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station. This parcel of land encompasses 240 acres south of Elliot Road, between the 500,000 volt North Gila and Kyrene transmission lines [Figure 1], The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Tina Hart. Chris North.

Salt River Project (SRP) requested that Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) conduct an intensive cultural resources survey of a 32.26-mile-long and 180- to 200-ft-wide (719-acre) segment of federal land along the existing SRP Coronado to Silverking 500-kV transmission line. This survey was requested in advance of proposed vegetation maintenance activities within the project corridor. Vegetation maintenance will be performed with mechanical mowing equipment, mounted on a track hoe or a rubber-tired...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Tina Hart.

Salt River Project (SRP) requested that Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) conduct an intensive cultural resources survey of a 32.26-mile-long and 180- to 200-ft-wide (722-acre) segment of federal land along the existing SRP Coronado to Silverking 500-kV transmission line. This survey was requested in advance of proposed vegetation-maintenance activities within the project corridor. Vegetation maintenance will be performed with mechanical mowing equipment, mounted on a track hoe or a rubber-tired...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Beth Hyman.

SRP is planning to construct a receiving station— RS-24— as part of the proposed Abel-Moody 230 kV transmission line project, currently in the siting process. As part of SRP’s land acquisition guidelines, SRP requested that Logan Simpson Design (LSD) conduct a Class III cultural resources survey of the proposed RS-24 site to determine whether any significant cultural resources will be disturbed by the construction. July 2009, Submittal 2

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jackie L. Orcholl.

Salt River Project (SRP) requested that Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) perform a Class III cultural resources survey of the approximately 4.25-mile by 20-m-wide corridor to identify and evaluate any cultural resources that could be affected by the construction of a new 69kV transmission line from the existing Quail Substation to the proposed Shipley Substation between Quail Run Road and Cooper Road in Magma, Pinal County. The survey area measures 22,440 ft long by 65.62 ft wide and encompasses...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Beth Hyman.

Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) requested that Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) perform a Class Ill cultural resources survey of the proposed Abel Generation Peaking Plant Site. The project area is a combination of recently plowed, planted, and fallow agricultural fields located near Queen Creek, Pinal County, Arizona. The project area encompasses 513 acres of private land adjacent to the intersection of Quail Run Lane and Bella Vista Road and includes a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Beth Hyman.

Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) requested that Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) perform a Class III cultural resources survey of the proposed Abel Generation Peaking Plant Site. The project area is a combination of recently plowed, planted, and fallow agricultural fields located near Queen Creek, Pinal County, Arizona. The project area encompasses 513 acres of private land adjacent to the intersection of Quail Run Lane and Bella Vista Road and includes a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mary-Ellen Walsh. David Bild.

Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) requested that Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) perform a Class III cultural resources survey of 4.7 acres for a proposed 12 kV distribution line south of Queen Valley, Pinal County, Arizona. The project area, which is located on State Trust land under the jurisdiction of the Arizona State Land Department (ASLD) north of US 60 near Hewitt Road. The cultural resources survey was requested by SRP in support of ASLD right-of-way...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Watkins. Scott Courtright. Chris North.

Arizona Public Service Company (APS) requested that Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) conduct an intensive cultural resources survey of a 61.22-mile-long and 50-ft-wide (371.03-acres) segment of state and federal land along the M-001(Deer Valley to Sycamore) transmission line. This survey was requested for general inventory purposes and also in advance of proposed vegetation, maintenance activities within the project corridor. In addition, APS may conduct maintenance or construction projects...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Bild.

Salt River Project (SRP) requested that Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) perform a Class III cultural resources survey of a portion of the Arlington Wildlife Area (AWA), Maricopa County, Arizona. The project area is located on Arizona Game and Fish Department (AGFD) and private land on the west side of the Gila River. The project area includes a 33-ft-wide and 2,560-ft-long corridor centered on the main access road through private land and a 27.10-acre AGFD parcel that measures 2,360 ft...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John T. Marshall.

Class III cultural resources survey of 70 acres located southwest of the intersection of Sossaman Road and Peralta Avenue, Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. The proposed undertaking is associated with Google’s proposed high-tech campus project, which requires connection to the SRP-managed Browning-Santan 230kV transmission line. SRP will construct a new switchyard and related structures and up to 10 230 kV circuits supported by up to 22 230kV distribution structures.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Reese Cook. David Bustoz. Erik Steinbach.

SRP requested that Logan Simpson conduct an intensive cultural resources survey of a 72.4-mile-long and 200-ft-wide (1,755-acre) segment of the SRP Coronado to Silverking 500-kV transmission line within the TNF and private land. This survey was requested for general inventory purposes and also in advance of proposed vegetation-maintenance activities within the project corridor. In addition, SRP may conduct maintenance or construction projects within the limits of the project corridor. Vegetation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Bild.

SRP is planning to upgrade the current carrying capacity of 18.3 miles of the existing Silver King to Goldfield 230kV line. In order to accomplish this, SRP plans to “bundle” the existing 230kV conductors by adding a second conductor to each of the three existing single-conductor phases. To add the new conductors, SRP will need to re-open some original access roads, and the selected wire, puller, sleeving, and anchor sites used during the original 1978 line construction. The existing...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James W. Cogswell.

Salt River Project is planning to construct a 12kV electrical transmission line on the northern side of Skyline Road. Logan Simpson Design Inc. conducted a Class III cultural resources survey, which includes a background records check. The purpose of the survey was to identify and assess any cultural resources in the parcel prior to construction of the powerline.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael M. Gregory.

During July 28 through August 2, 1991, Archaeological Research Services, Inc., performed a cultural resources survey within the State Route 87 right-of-way between mileposts 177.86 and 188.78. This 10.92 mile long by 200 ft wide survey corridor crosses Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community land between McDowell Road and Shea Boulevard north of Mesa in Maricopa County, Arizona (U.S.G.S. Mesa, Ariz. 7.5' 1967/1972/1973; U.S.G.S. Sawik Mountain, Ariz. 7.5' 1964/1982; U.S.G.S. Granite Reef Dam,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ross S. Curtis.

In early February, 1989, Archaeological Research Services, Inc. completed an archaeological survey of a 3 1/4 mile long segment of the proposed Outer Loop Freeway along the 99th Avenue between McDowell Road and Camelback Road west of Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. The 1114 acre survey parcel (17,160 ft north-south by 2640-3440 ft east-west) was evaluated as part of Arizona Department of Transportation Project 101L MA H0806 01D RAM-600-0-313. As a result of the field survey, two small...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James W. Cogswell.

SRP is planning to construct a 69 kV electrical transmission line between the existing Webber substation and the planned Witherspoon and Watkins substations in the Johnson Ranch area. Logan Simpson Design Inc. conducted a Class III cultural resources survey of the project area. The purpose of the survey was to identify and assess any cultural resources in the parcel prior to construction of the powerline.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrew I. Duff.

Between August 23 and September 3, 1993, Archaeological Research Services, Inc., conducted a cultural resources survey of a 9.17 mile long segment of U.S. Route 60 right-of-way for the Arizona Department of Transportation in Pinal County, Arizona. The survey area consisted of a 200 ft wide corridor centered on U.S. 60 from mileposts 212.0 to 220.17 and 222.5 to 223.5. The approximately 222.3 acre project area (182.3 acres excluding paved portions) consisted of existing Arizona Department of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bradford W. Stone.

On December 29, 1997, and January 9 and February 20, 1998, Archaeological Research Services, Inc. (ARS) conducted a cultural resources (archaeological) survey along a portion of the Grand Canal in Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona. The survey was performed at the request of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) to determine if important cultural resources were present within or immediately adjacent to the study area which could be affected by the construction of a proposed drainage...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey A. Homburg.

Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI), completed a survey of a potential transportation corridor segment as part of the overall Fence Lake Coal Mine Project in the fall of 2001. The survey was sponsored by the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) on private land owned by SRP and land leased to SRP by the Arizona State Land Department (ASLD).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joshua Watts. T. Kathleen Henderson.

This report presents the results of the archaeological survey of a 2.445-acre parcel of land on the northern side of Warner Road, west of Ellsworth Road, in southeastern Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. The work was requested by the Salt River Project (SRP) to determine whether activities associated with the construction of an electrical substation will have an effect on significant cultural remains that might be present in the area. The substation site is located on Arizona State Trust Land, and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lyle M. Stone.

On July 6, 1987, Lyle M. Stone of Archaeological Research Services, Inc, (ARS) performed a cultural resources survey of an 7.974 acre parcel of land in Mesa, Arizona. This survey was requested by the Engineering Department, City of Mesa, in order to determine if important cultural resources (which may include prehistoric or historic archaeological sites or objects, architecturally or historically significant structures or buildings) were present which could be adversely affected by the proposed...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lyle M. Stone.

On June 4, 1986, Lyle M. Stone of Archaeological Research Services, Inc. (ARS) performed a cultural resources survey of a proposed 12 kV powerline corridor located on Greenback Creek near its confluence with Tonto Creek app­roximately 6.5 miles southeast of Punkin Center, Gila County, Arizona. Although the powerline will be located on both U.S. Forest Service (Tonto National Forest) and private lands, only the 2.2 mile long segment across U. S. Forest Service lands was surveyed for the presence...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David R. Hart.

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed four Class III cultural resources surveys as part of the Santan pipeline expansion project. The surveys were conducted at the request of the Salt River Project (SRP). The surveyed areas represent changes or additions to the original pipeline alignment (see Lindly et al. 2002). The additions consist of a temporary construction easement (TCE), a block survey for possible realignments, and two additional realignments of segments of the pipeline...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Grant Fahrni.

SRP is proposing to develop a new well site and install an associated pipeline and electrical transmission line that will provide water to the SRP Coronado Generating Station to facilitate compliance with new requirements for emissions reduction at the generating station. The survey area is a proposed easement that measures 100 feet × 200 feet, encompassing nearly 0.5 acre of State Trust Land administered by the Arizona State Land Department.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jack B. Bertram. Galen R. Burgett. Kenneth J. Lord.

AT&T plans to construct a fiber optics communication line between Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Phoenix, Arizona. Chambers Group, Inc. of Albuquerque was contracted to complete a Class III cultural resources inventory along the proposed route within the State of New Mexico. A Class I overview completed by Soil Systems, Inc. of Phoenix indicated that 10 previously recorded sites within New Mexico could be potentially impacted and that certain portions of the route had not been adequately surveyed....

DOCUMENT Full-Text James W. Cogswell.

Northland staff conducted a full-coverage (100%) cultural resources survey of the project area. The pedestrian survey consisted of an archaeologist walking parallel east-west transects spaced no more than 15 meters apart. The soil had been graded in the recent past, resulting in near-perfect surface visibility. The area along and between transects was inspected for cultural remains and/or modifications. No artifacts or features were identi­fied; a few pieces of modern trash, primarily crushed...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Stubing. Korri Turner. Erin Davis.

Carter & Burgess, Inc.  (C&B) conducted a Class III,  non collection  cultural  resources survey of approximately  1,346 acres of privately owned  land within the  proposed  Merrill Ranch development,  located  northwest of Florence,  Pinal County, Arizona  (Figure  1). The survey was conducted at the request of Vanguard  Properties as part of ongoing efforts to determine whether significant cultural  resources exist within the Merrill  Ranch development,  prior to the proposed construction  of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Annie Jay Lutes. Jerome Hesse.

SRP is a community-based, not-for-profit electric power and water utility company serving over 2 million central Arizona residents in the Phoenix metropolitan area and beyond. It maintains and operates (whole or in part) a series of reservoirs and dams, a canal system, and a network of power generation stations. One of its overhead 500-kilovolt (kV) lines connects from SRP’s coal-fired Coronado Generating Station near St. Johns in east-central Arizona to the 60-year-old Cholla Power Plant near...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Justin P. Rego.

Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) requested that Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) perform a Class III cultural resources survey prior to anticipated staging of 18 wire pulling locations for a new 230-kV transmission line from Kortsen Road to Thornton Road for the Desert Basin Generating Station, west of Casa Grande in Pinal County. The Class III survey was undertaken to identify, document and evaluate the Arizona/National Register of Historic Places (A/NRHP)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Grant Fahrni.

Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) requested that Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) conduct a cultural resources survey prior to the installation of a well pad, a water pipeline right-of-way (ROW), and an electrical transmission line ROW within the Salado Preserve south of St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona. The well pad survey area measures 60 m by 60 m (0.92 acre). The two ROWs are perpendicular to each other and partially overlap. A north to south trending ROW...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David D. Barz.

Archaeological Research Services, Inc. (ARS) performed a Class m (Intensive Field Inventory) cultural resources (archaeological) survey within a 300-to-600 ft wide corridor through both previously surveyed and unsurveyed Tonto National Forest (TNF), Tonto National Monument administered by the National Park Service (NPS), Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), and private land for the proposed upgrade of State Route 88 (SR 88) between Roosevelt and Claypool, Gila County, Arizona (ADOT...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David D. Barz.

From December 5, 1994 to January 12, 1995, Archaeological Research Services, Inc. (ARS) performed a Class III (Intensive Field Inventory) cultural resources survey within a 200 ft wide corridor along State Route 88 (SR 88) between mileposts 213.4 and 242 in the northern Superstition Mountains on Tonto National Forest (TNF) lands. The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) requested the survey in anticipation of planned maintenance activities. This project was completed under the conditions...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jackie L. Orcholl.

SRP requested that Logan Simpson Design (LSD) conduct a Class III cultural resources survey of a new right-of-way (ROW) to determine whether any significant cultural resources will be disturbed by the construction of a 230-kV transmission line. SRP also requested that LSD evaluate portions of four previously recorded sites that are within an existing Western 115-kV transmission line ROW. The new 230-kV transmission line will replace the existing Western line as part of the current project.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas E. Wright.

On December 6, 2000, Archaeological Research Services, Inc. (ARS) conducted a cultural resources survey of approximately 68 acres of land owned by the Salt River Project in northwestern Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona. The project area is bounded on the north by Washington Street, on the south by the Union Pacific Railroad tracks, on the east by a property boundary approximately 600 feet west of Center Parkway, and on the west by Priest Drive.The project area is being considered for the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Eric Petersen.

SRP is proposing the Coolidge Expansion Project, which entails the expansion of and upgrades to the Coolidge Generating Station on SRP-owned land in Coolidge, Pinal County, Arizona. The project would require a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility (CEC) from the ACC. SRP contracted SWCA to support the CEC application process, including conducting a cultural resources survey.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Frank B. Fryman.

As one of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' affirmative actions to meet its responsibilities for compliance with section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), as amended, a cultural rsources survey was carried out on September 20, 28, and October 13, 1988 for a proposed BIA Branch of Roads reconstruction and paving project on the Salt River Project-Maricopa Indian Reservation in Maricopa County, Arizona. The purpose of the survey was to identify and evaluate any cultural resources...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Connie Darby.

This report presents the results of a Class III cultural resources survey of eight locations where boring will be conducted to collect hydrological data and, in some cases, wells will be installed. These borings are part of the Superstition Vistas Drilling Program. The eight boring sites are generally distributed across Arizona State Trust Land between Florence Junction (east) and the Town of Queen Creek (west), Arizona. The survey was requested by Salt River Project (SRP) in conjunction with...

DOCUMENT Full-Text T Kathleen Henderson.

This report presents the results of a Class III cultural resources survey of right-of-way easements for 12 kV distribution and 69 kV subtransmission lines that will extend to the west from the Dinosaur Substation, located east of the town of Queen Creek on the western side of the Central Arizona Project (CAP) canal in northern Pinal County, Arizona (Figure 1). Most of the surveyed property is on Arizona State Trust Land administered by the Arizona State Land Department (ASLD Right-of-Way...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey D. Owens.

On 12 May and 14 July 1995 personnel from Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI), conducted a cultural resources survey of Hayden Road between McKellips Road and the Red Mountain Freeway in Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona. Approximately 23 ac were surveyed for the presence of cultural resources. The project area is approximately 1.0 mi long, and a corridor 29 m (95 ft) wide was surveyed on either side of the pavement of Hayden Road. The Maricopa County Department of Transportation proposes to widen this...

DOCUMENT Full-Text T. Kathleen Henderson.

Class III cultural resources survey of planned right-of-way easement for installation of an underground 12 kV electric line to serve as a tie-in between Johnson Ranch and the Webber Substation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Walter R. Punzmann. Holly S. DeMaagd.

As part of the Red Mountain Freeway project, the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) is adding supplementary right-of-way and temporary construction easements between Gilbert and Higley Roads in Mesa. Much of the new land was previously surveyed during examination of various proposed alignments for the road (Macnider et al. 1999). However, nine new parcels located on private land and Arizona state trust land administered by the Arizona State Land Department (ASLD)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas E. Wright.

On January 16, 1998, Archaeological Research Services, Inc. (ARS) conducted a cultural resources survey of approximately 2.8 acres of privately-owned land in downtown Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona. The project area consists of most of the city block bounded by Mill Avenue on the west, Myrtle Avenue on the east, 6th Street on the north, and 7th Street on the south. The historic Moeur House and Hatton Hall, on the northwest corner of 7th Street and Myrtle, and the Gilbert Ortega and Mill Cue...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Hoski Schaafsma. Diane Fenicle. Jill Heilman.

The Maricopa County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) is planning a pavement preservation project along the Bush Highway from Power Road to just south of State Route (SR) 87 (also known as the Beeline Highway), Maricopa County, Arizona (Figure 1). MCDOT tasked EcoPlan Associates, Inc. (EcoPlan) with cultural resource survey in advance of road improvement. The results of the survey are presented in this report.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chris North.

The Salt River Project (SRP) has acquired the C.C. Cragin (formerly Blue Ridge) project from the Phelps Dodge Corporation, which originally built the project in 1965. The C.C. Cragin project consists of a number of facilities, including a dam and reservoir, diversion tunnel and pump shaft, pumping plant, priming reservoir, pipeline, electrical transmission line, surge tank, and a power plant. SRP requested a Class III cultural resources survey of these facilities in advance of future operation,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel Garcia.

SRP Water Rights and Contracts requested that Biological and Cultural Resources (BCRS) inspect a portion of the McMillan Property, in Camp Verde, Yavapai County, to determine if any cultural resources are present and would be impacted by proposed vegetation management aimed at reducing wildfire risks. BCRS staff Daniel Garcia and Nina Grimaldi conducted the inspection on January 13, 2022. As a result of the survey, one archaeological site (McMillan-1, believed to be NA3528 or the Verde Ballcourt...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kenneth Boden.

An archaeological survey was conducted for Salt River Project (SRP) for a proposed extension of the Coronado Railroad right-of-way (ROW). The extended ROW occurs in two areas on private and State of Arizona lands in Apache County, Arizona. The survey was completed by SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants, under contract with SRP. The project was administered by Dr. Judy L. Brunson, SRP Archaeologist, and David H. Greenwald, SWCA Project Manager. The survey was completed by the author on January...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Regina L. Chapin-Pyritz. Matthew Hill, Jr..

GBPP (Gila Bend Power Partners) proposes to construct and operate a 500kV transmission line, which will deliver electrical power from the Hassayampa Switchyard south of Wintersburg, Arizona to the Jojoba Switchyard currently under construction in south-central Maricopa County, Arizona. The project will increase the transmission of electrical power into areas surrounding metropolitan Phoenix, and will promote economic development of benefit to the people of Arizona. GBPP retained EPG...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David H. Greenwald.

On December 27, 1990, SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants, conducted an archaeological survey on the Salt River Pima and Maricopa Indian Reservation for Salt River Project for a proposed substation. Approximately 2.07 acres located in a modern field were surveyed. Isolated artifacts consisted of a single piece of heat-altered rock and five pieces of mafic igneous flaked debitage. Archival investigations revealed that the project area is located in the extreme northwestern portion of Pueblo...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott L. Fedick.

On February 27, 1986, Scott L. Fedick of Archaeological Research Services, Inc. (ARS), performed a cultural resources survey at the proposed location of the Salt River Project Central Support Complex. The survey was undertaken at the request of Salt River Project in order to determine if cultural resources, which may include prehistoric or historic archaeological sites or objects, historically or architecturally significant structures or buildings, were present which could be affected by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Connie A. Darby.

This report presents the results of a Class III cultural resources survey of a portion of the right-of-way corridor for a new 69 kV subtransmission line that will extend between the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) Quail Substation, located southeast of Queen Creek, and the Florence Junction Substation, west of Florence Junction, Arizona. The survey was requested by SRP to determine if significant cultural resources were present within the right-of-way...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lourdes Aguila.

Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted a Class III (Intensive), non-collection cultural resources survey on approximately 170 miles of the Arizona, Arizona Crosscut, Grand, Tempe, Tempe Crosscut, Consolidated, Eastern, South, Western, Highline, and Kyrene Branch Canals in Maricopa County, Arizona. The survey was undertaken at the request of Jon S. Czaplicki, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) archaeologist and Contracting Officer's Technical Representative for Contract...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lynn A. Neal.

Salt River Project (SRP) proposes to construct a railroad transportation corridor from the proposed Fence Lake Coal Mine in Catron County, New Mexico, to the Coronado Generating Station in Apache County, Arizona. The original route of the Arizona corridor was surveyed by O’Brien and Dosh (1987). The New Mexico portion of the corridor and two reroutes along the New Mexico segment were inventoried in 1991 (Morris 1992). A third reroute, also on the New Mexico corridor, was inventoried in 1994...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David H. Greenwald. Sarah L. Horton.

A cultural resources survey of two proposed substations was conducted for Salt River Project by archaeologists from SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants, on January 30, 1991. The project involved the survey of approximately 3.5 acres of State of Arizona Lands for the Mesa Highlands substation located in Maricopa County west of Apache Junction, Arizona, and approximately 4.0 acres of State of Arizona Lands for the 46E 1S substation located in Pinal County south of Apache Junction on the Queen...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John T. Marshall.

Class III cultural resources survey of the San Francisco Canal right-of-way alignment to assess the potential for subsurface cultural resources within the right-of-way

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher N. Watkins. Robert A. Rowe.

Arizona Public Service Company (APS) requested that Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) conduct an intensive cultural resources survey of a 0.23-mile-long and 50-ft-wide (1.39-acre) right-of-way across Luke AFB for the M-101 (Agua Fria–Waddell) 69-kV transmission line, a 4.75-mile-long and 50-ft-wide (28.78-acre) right-of-way across State Trust land administered by the ASLD and BLM lands for the M-104 (Agua Fria–Westwing) 69-kV transmission line, and a 2.26-mile-long and 150-ft-wide (41.09-acre)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pat H. Stein.

In the spring of 1984, Archaeological Research Services, Inc. was contracted by the Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache Indian Community to conduct data recovery at historic sites which would be impacted by Phase I of the Fort McDowell Irrigation Betterment Project. The sites are located on the Fort McDowell Indian Reservation, Maricopa County, Arizona. Nine sites were studied. Two of them were canals: the Government Ditch, dating from 1866 to ca 1940, and the Jones Ditch, dating from 1896 to present....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Lindeman.

Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) plans to construct an 88-mile-long extra-high voltage transmission line linking the Pinal West, Santa Rosa, Pinal Central, Abel, and Dinosaur Substations. The project corridor traverses the area from the Maricopa/Pinal County line west of the Ak Chin Indian Community, southeastward and eastward past Casa Grande, Arizona, then roughly northward past Coolidge and Florence, Arizona, ending east of Queen Creek, Arizona, along the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Lindeman. T. Kathleen Henderson. Tiffany Clark.

Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) plans to construct an 88-mile-long extra-high voltage transmission line linking the Pinal West, Santa Rosa, Pinal Central, Abel, and Dinosaur Substations. The project corridor traverses the area from the Maricopa/Pinal County line west of the Ak Chin Indian Community, southeastward and eastward past Casa Grande, Arizona, then roughly northward past Coolidge and Florence, Arizona, ending east of Queen Creek, Arizona, along the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mary-Ellen Walsh. Michael Stubing. Laurene Montero.

This document presents a data recovery plan to mitigate adverse effects to cultural resources within AZ U:10:123 (ASM) that will result from construction of the proposed Red Mountain Freeway (RMF), Gilbert Road to Higley Road segment in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona (Figure 1). The data recovery will be completed by Entranco, and was requested by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT). The project is to be completed as part of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text T. Kathleen Henderson. Mary-Ellen Walsh-Anduze. Tiffany C. Clark.

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) plans to extend the Red Mountain Freeway/SR 202L from SR 87 to US 60, resulting in the construction of nearly 18 miles of new freeway. Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS), completed a Class III cultural resource survey of the proposed project area, which resulted in the identification and recording of numerous prehistoric and historic sites within the Red Mountain Freeway (RMF) corridor (Macnider et al. 1999) . Crismon Pueblo and the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text T. Kathleen Henderson.

Salt River Project (SRP) plans to construct a new 230 kV transmission line between the Browning and Dinosaur substations east of Mesa and Queen Creek, Arizona. A cultural resources survey has determined that portions of three archaeological sites that meet criteria for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places are present within the transmission line corridor (Henderson 2005). Desert Archaeology, Inc., has prepared this plan at the request of SRP to conduct phased data recovery...

DOCUMENT Full-Text T. Kathleen Henderson. Allison Cohen Diehl.

Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) plans to construct new 12kV /69kV electric lines between the Dinosaur and Hunt substations east of Queen Creek, Arizona. A cultural resources survey has determined that portions of nine archaeological sites which meet criteria for inclusion on the Arizona and National Register of Historic Places are present within the electric lines corridor (Clark 2007). SRP has further established that construction activity for the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Shereen Lerner, Ph.D..

Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) is serving as a consultant to U.S. West Communications (US West) for a proposed utility (fiber optic communication cable) right-of-way. The right-of-way is located within the southern access road for the Grand Canal, which passes through Pueblo Grande National Historic Landmark (Pueblo Grande), although the proposed right-of-way is not within the National Historic Landmark boundary. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places...

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The mountainous zone below the Mogollon Rim in central Arizona was home to Apache in the pre-Reservation period (pre-A.D. 1875). Four Western Apache site components, dating between the late seventeenth and late nineteenth centuries A.D., were identified during excavations conducted in advance of the realignment of the Preacher Canyon and Little Green Valley segments of State Route 260 between Payson and Heber: Plymouth Landing, AZ O:12:89/ AR-03-12-04-1411 (ASM/TNF), McGoonie, AZ...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard F. Van Valkenburgh.

diné bikéyah "The Navajo's Country", is primarily a guide book and gazetteer of the Navajo country and adjacent regions. While but a fraction of the Navajo place names have been listed, those given have been selected as most important and interesting to government employees, students, and travelers. Furthermore, it is hoped that diné bikéyah now using the official Indian Department system of writing the Navajo language, will make it possible to standardize and crystalize into universal spelling...

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Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) plans to construct an 88-mile-long 500-kV extra-high voltage transmission line linking the Pinal West, Santa Rosa, Pinal Central, Abel, and Dinosaur substations (ACC CEC Case No. 126). This report presents the results of Phase I data recovery (extent testing) and Phase II data recovery within a 40-m- (130-ft-) wide corridor at seven sites located on State Trust Land administered by the Arizona State Land Department (ASLD) (ASLD...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert E. Gasser.

This paper will synthesize the macrobotanical findings from the Tucson Aqueduct Project, Phase A (TAP), conducted by the Museum of Northern Arizona and will highlight some of the pollen and flotation results from the Salt-Gila Aqueduct Project (SGA), completed by the Arizona State Museum. Both projects were segments of the Central Arizona Project, a huge canal bringing water from the Colorado River to the farms and towns of southern Arizona. The ...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Jefferson Reid.

This documentation is submitted in support of a recommendation that archaeological clearance be granted for construction associated with the Arizona Public Service Company Cholla-Saguaro 500 kV Transmission Line at Site CS-126, within direct impact areas. The expected impacts will result from APS tower 420 and SRP tower 417 This report includes the research design developed for work at this site in accordance with the general research proposal presented in the documentation for determination...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Daryl Chipman. Daniel Garcia.

Beginning in 2021, Salt River Project (SRP) will replace substandard historic-age lattice tower structures along the 130-mile-long Eastern Mining Area (EMA) 115 kilovolt (kV) transmission system located on the Tonto National Forest and Tonto National Monument. The work is necessary to maintain reliability and safety of the EMA system and is being conducted to meet the requirements of the National Electrical Safety Code and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), acting under...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Homer Thiel.

A brief cultural background of the Tucson Basin and a set of research questions that guided work at BB:13:157 and BB:13:505 have been presented in Chapter 1. The work at prehistoric sites is presented in Chapter 2, while Chapter 3 chronicles the history of the Leon family and their property. Excavations at the Leon farmstead and the adjacent historic period canal are described in Chapter 4. The historic-period artifacts recovered from the Leon farmstead are examined in Chapter 5. Chapter 6...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kimberley A. Ryan. Lesley Hudson.

SRP intends to replace transmission line structures at two locations along the Horse Mesa-Frazier/Mormon Flat and Horse Mesa-Goldfield l 15kV transmission lines (Locations 1 and 2, respectively). Work may include extensive improvements to a proposed access route for Location 2. Project areas are located in the vicinity of Tortilla Flat on TNF lands in Maricopa County, Arizona. SRP and TNF view these activities as standard transmission line maintenance.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kimberley A. Ryan.

SRP is responsible for management of a 131-mile system of canals, which must be maintained year round. To allow for the performance of routine maintenance and canal improvements, portions of main canals within the SRP network are "dried up" for a one-month period during the fall and winter seasons. As part of a larger effort to reduce erosion and water loss through ground seepage, the Grand Canal lining project was conducted to install a protective concrete lining along a previously unlined...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Heather Duncan.

Salt River Project (SRP) plans to construct a double-circuit, 230-kilovolt (kV) transmission line and a new substation, known as RS-24, to reinforce the local, existing electric transmission system by providing an alternate 230kV transmission loop between the new Abel Substation and Moody Substation, which will substantially improve system reliability and performance. The new transmission line is expected to be approximately 20 miles in length, depending on the selected alternative. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text United Research Services (URS).

Salt River Project (SRP) is currently planning the construction of an underground water storage and recovery facility in the West Salt River Groundwater Basin north of Phoenix, Arizona (Figure 1). The project site is at the confluence of the Agua Fria and New Rivers between Indian School Road and Camelback Road in Glendale Arizona (Figure 2). The current plan calls for the development of 4-6 recharge basins of approximately 100 acres in total surface area. Water depth will not exceed two feet...

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An archaeological survey of land owned by Salt River Project or a portion of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation was conducted from September 17 through October 8, 1994, by students of Mesa Community College and members of the Southwest Archaeology Team and Arizona Archaeological Society, under the direction of Dr. Shereen Lerner and Mr. Sam Baar. The survey was conducted at the request of Dr. Judy Brunson-Hadley with Salt River Project (SRP) to inventory any cultural resources which...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher M. Moreno. Giorgio H. Curti. Dayna Bowker Lee.

This report summarizes the inventory of Dine (Navajo) Traditional Cultural Properties (TCPs) at Fort Wingate Depot Activity (FWDA). FWDA as a whole is part of Dine Bikeyah (Navajoland) and is connected to and embedded in Dine sacred geographies. As such, it is part of a Dine traditional cultural landscape and is recommended eligible for inclusion on the NRHP as an historic district TCP. Three component landscapes at FWDA that also function as contributing elements to this historic district were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kris Dobschuetz. Matthew E. Hill, Jr.. Sharon K. Bauer.

APS and SRP were issued a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility (CEC) by the Arizona Corporation Commission for their Southwest Valley 500kV Transmission Line Project (Southwest Valley Project). The project consists of approximately 37 miles of 500 kilovolt (kV) transmission line to interconnect electric generation resources in the west valley with the existing 230kV system in the metropolitan Phoenix area.

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Gregory.

This volume contains descriptive data for excavated features and materials collected from the Early Agricultural period component at Los Pozos (AZ AA:12.91 [ASM]). These data are analyzed and discussed in a companion volume (Gregory, ed. 2001), while a related volume (Gregory, ed. 1999) reports on the Middle Archaic component investigated at this same site. The site name acknowledges several Early Agricultural period wells discovered during work at the site. These data were collected as part of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christine Lewis.

In 1892 Judge Joseph H. Kibbey, one of Arizona's illustrious pioneers, described the Salt River Valley before the settlers came as a desert, uninhabited except by jack rabbits, coyotes, and rattlesnakes. Its main vegetation was sagebrush and cactus. It was a level, fertile valley about fifteen miles wide, through which the Salt River flowed west for forty miles to its junction with the Gila. The Salt River was a fluctuating stream. Sometimes it was a raging torrent which flooded the level land...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas N. Motsinger. Heidi Roberts. Richard V. N. Ahlstrom.

SWCA Inc, Environmental Consultants of Tucson, Arizona, conducted Eastern Mining Area (EMA) survey project under contract to Salt River Project (SRP) between October 1993 and February 1994. One central purpose of the project was to create an inventory of archaeological resources to assist in the planning of future improvements and other modifications to existing SRP transmission lines. The project included 107 person-field days of Class III archaeological survey along approximately 257 linear...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas N. Motsinger. Heidi Roberts. Richard V. N. Ahlstrom.

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA), of Tucson, Arizona, conducted the Eastern Mining Area (EMA) survey project under contract to Salt River Project (SRP) between October, 1993, and February, 1994. One central purpose of the project was to create an inventory of archaeological resources to assist in the planning of future improvements and other modifications to existing SRP transmission lines. The project included 107 person-field days of Class III archaeological survey along...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chris D. North.

In April and May 2000, SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA) conducted cultural resource surveys for EPNG's Line No. 2000 Project, surveying the former All American Pipeline in Cochise, La Paz, Maricopa, Pima, and Pinal counties for the Arizona segment. At the request of EPNG, SWCA began the cultural resources survey for this project in April 2000 in support of an Environmental Assessment (EA) being prepared by ENSR, Inc., in conjunction with a pipeline acquisition, conversion, operation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Diana Hadley. Richard V.N. Ahlstrom. Scott Mills.

The Bureau of Land Management is aware of the evidence for long-term human habitation along Bonita Creek. It has been said that, at times during the last century, Bonita Creek was home to perhaps dozens of families. Details of this period of occupation are, however, wanting. In addition, the town of Safford has been drawing substantial quantities of water from Bonita Creek for many years. How has this history of human use affected the environment of Bonita Creek? To answer this question, the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport Authority. Adrienne Tremblay.

This document presents the eleventh annual (Year 11) report detailing the management of historic properties by the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport Authority (PMGAA) at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (Gateway) from 1 May 2008 to 30 September 2009. Gateway is located at the former Williams Air Force Base (WAFB) in Mesa, Arizona. Within Gateway, 14 historic properties have been identified: five World War II hangars and nine prehistoric archaeological sites (Figure 1). Activities at Gateway for Year...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David Schroeder. Marion Forest.

To meet increased demand for electricity due to growth, SRP plans to construct an approximately 20-mile (mi), double-circuit, 230-kilovolt (kV) transmission line including associated tubular steel pole structures that average 110–140 feet (ft) tall (Project). The Project will connect three 230/69kV receiving stations, including the Ball Substation in Gilbert, the Pfister Substation in southeastern Queen Creek, and the Abel Substation east of San Tan Valley. This Project was approved by the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jacqueline R. Fox. Travis Cureton. Mark R. Hackbarth.

The COT, in conjunction with the ADOT and FHWA, is planning to construct a multi-use path (MUP) and implement streetscape improvements along 8th Street between Rural Road and McClintock Drive in Tempe. The APE consists of one mile of the existing 8th Street right-of-way measuring 73.0 ft to 90.5 ft wide. This includes the COT-owned property on the north side of 8th Street from Rural Road to Dorsey Lane (a former railroad ROW measuring 33 feet wide by 2,640 feet long), and a SRVWUA 1911...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Wirth Associates.

From January to April of 1974, Wirth Associates, as part of a larger study team, conducted environmental studies for the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) on their proposed Coronado Generating Station. The purpose of these studies was to assess the potential environmental conflicts of the proposed 1050 MW generating station on the scenic, historic and land use resources of two alternate plant sites (near the towns of St. Johns and Snowflake, Arizona) and their...

DOCUMENT Full-Text U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service.

Arizona Public Service Company, a member of the Western Energy Supply and Transmission Associates (WEST), is responsible for the construction and maintenance of two 500,000 volt transmission lines from the Navajo generating plant (now being constructed 4 miles east of Page, Arizona) to Phoenix, Arizona. The Company submitted a proposed right-of-way location for the transmission line route to the Forest Service for study and review. Upon receipt of this proposal Southwestern Regional Forester...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lyle M. Stone. James E. Ayres.

This is a final, summary report on historic cultural resources in relation to the Central Arizona Water Control Study (CAWCS). The objectives of the CAWCS were to identify and evaluate alternative measures for flood control and regulatory water storage in Central Arizona in conjunction with construction of the Central Arizona Project. Having considered numerous alternative plans to meet these objectives, the Bureau of Reclamation defined a preferred alternative (Plan...

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During the fall of 1978, the Black Mesa Archaeological Project (BMAP) was requested by Peabody Coal Company to carry out archaeological research in three areas of the Peabody lease on Black Mesa, Arizona. The purpose of this research was to mitigate the adverse impact of future mining activity and to provide archaeological clearance for these mining activities. This work was carried out under Antiquities Act Permit number 78-AZ-040 (expiration date, May 30, 1981), 79-AZ-055 (expiration date,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Gregory. Michelle N. Stevens. Fred L. Nials. Mark R. Schurr. Michael W. Diehl.

The current volume, the third of four, acts as a final report for the excavations that were conducted at Los Pozos, AZ AA:12:91 (ASM) in the fall of 1998. Hoping to build on earlier work conducted by Desert Archaeology at other Early Agricultural period sites along the Santa Cruz, these volumes combine data with those from both seasons at Los Pozos and those garnered from Las Capas to explore the implications of this total body of work for current understanding of this important and lengthy...

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Archaeological research reported in this volume was conducted under an on call contract between Desert Archaeology, Inc. and the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT; Contract 9446). This contract provides for documentation and appropriate treatment of cultural resources encountered during long-term implementation of proposed ADOT improvements to the Tucson area segment of the Interstate 10 corridor between the Interstate 19 interchange on the south and Tangerine Road on the north (Mabry...

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The Middle Archaic remains reported here are a component of a larger distribution designated as AZ AA:12:91(ASM) in the Arizona State Museum Site Survey system and named Los Pozos. The site was investigated in anticipation of impacts from proposed Arizona Department of Transportation improvements to the Interstate 10 corridor in the Tucson metropolitan area (Mabry 1993b; Preface to this volume). In addition to the spatially restricted Middle Archaic remains, the site includes an extensive Early...

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This volume, the eighth of the Black Mesa descriptive excavation reports, presents the results of archaeological field work performed during the 1981 field season. The work was sponsored by Peabody Coal Company, Arizona Division, and took place in the Peabody Coal Company Black Mesa leasehold on northern Black Mesa, Arizona. The volume is organized to provide information in four general categories: legal compliance, synthesis of research, description of field work, and presentation of data. The...

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The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and HDR Engineering, Inc., proposed a highway- widening project along State Route 82 (SR82) in Cochise County, Arizona. The proposed project included the addition of a turn lane and relocation of the entrance into the historic Fairbank Townsite, AZ EE:8:3 (ASM), an archaeological site and historic property administered by the BLM. The project was initiated for safety issues related to visibility concerns. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text T. Kathleen Henderson.

This report describes the results of the field investigations of several sites located in the vicinity of Marana, Arizona. These investigations were undertaken by the Office of Cultural Resource Management, Arizona State University on behalf of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to mitigate the impacts on prehistoric sites resulting from the construction of the Reach 3 segment of the Tucson Aqueduct. The report provides a review of the field strategies and techniques used in the recovery of data and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Shirley Powell. Peter P. Andrews. Deborah L. Nichols. F. E. Smiley.

The Black Mesa Archaeological Project has been conducting field investigations and archaeological research in northeastern Arizona since 1967. The work is contracted for by Peabody Coal Company in order to comply with federal, state, and tribal statutes. The longevity of the project, as well as its size and complexity, affords a unique opportunity to evaluate and refine research, project administration, and legal compliance procedures. In most situations, clear advantages have resulted from the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text HDR Engineering, Inc..

The proposed project is located in west Phoenix and east Glendale in the vicinity of the 51st Avenue and Cactus  Road  intersection.  The  Arizona  Canal  and  ACDC  bisect  the  area  in  a  southeast  to  northwest direction  starting  south  of Cactus  Road and east  of 51st  Avenue,  and departs  north  of Cactus  Road and west  of 51st  Avenue.  There  are  paved  and/or gravel-dirt  paths  on  each  side  of the  Arizona Canal  and ACDC.  The  area  between the  Arizona Canal  and  ACDC...

DOCUMENT Full-Text The United States Reclamation Service.

After the passage of what is known as the Reclamation Act, approved June 17, 1902, the people of Salt River Valley made very earnest efforts to induce the Secretary of the Interior to authorize the construction of the Salt River Project. They were successful in these efforts and the project was tentatively authorized by the Secretary on March 12, 1903. It was early decided by the Interior Department that in cases where the lands, that would receive the benefit of the proposed project, were...