Archaeological Monitoring of a Sewer Line Across the Western Canal at the Priest Road Bridge Widening, Tempe, Arizona

Author(s): Josephine Merewether

Year: 1988

Summary

In October 1988, construction began on the Priest Road bridge at the Western Canal. The City of Tempe is widening the bridge and thet Salt River project (SRP), in conjunction with this construction, is putting a new 21-in. sewer line and a water line across the canal west of Priest Road. At the request of Judy Brunson, SRP archaeologist, Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) monitored the excavation of the backhoe trench for the sewer line across the canal.

Cite this Record

Archaeological Monitoring of a Sewer Line Across the Western Canal at the Priest Road Bridge Widening, Tempe, Arizona, 25. Josephine Merewether. Soil Systems Technical Reports ,88. Phoenix, AZ: Soil Systems, Inc. 1988 ( tDAR id: 402704) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8402704

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Keywords

Culture
Historic

Material
Building Materials • Concrete • Glass • Metal

Site Type
Isolated Artifact

Investigation Types
Ground Disturbance Monitoring

General
Debris • Lassen Substation • Salt River Project • Sewer Line at Priest Road Bridge • SRP • SSI • Wire

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • Tempe, AZ • Western Canal

Temporal Keywords
Historic

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.976; min lat: 33.375 ; max long: -111.95; max lat: 33.398 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager

Contributor(s): Judy Brunson

Principal Investigator(s): Cory Dale Breternitz

Sponsor(s): Salt River Project

Prepared By(s): Soil Systems, Inc.

Submitted To(s): Salt River Project

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1988_Merewether_ArchaeologicalMonitoring.pdf 234.42kb Nov 1, 1988 May 6, 2016 10:56:59 AM Confidential
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Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager