Moisture Monitoring Studies of Adobe Walls at Pecos NHP, New Mexico

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Vanishing Treasures Program: Celebrating 20 Years of National Park Service Historic Preservation" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In 2014 cultural resource staff at Pecos NHP began a moisture monitoring program to understand the movement of moisture within adobe walls and to study the affects of preservation treatments. The program uses moisture volume and soil moisture potential sensors in two adobe test walls and within a large original wall of the 18th century Spanish Colonial church to understand moisture infiltration and the affects of different preservation treatments, especially the use of amended adobe veneers as shelter coats protecting original 17th and 18th century adobe walls. Precipitation events are tied to the moisture data through the use of real-time weather stations and NOAA weather data on site. This presentation will discuss the last fours years of data collection and how the results inform preservation decision making and monitoring.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Vanishing Treasures Program: Celebrating 20 Years of National Park Service Historic Preservation   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 22992