A Submerged Cultural Resources Remote Sensing Survey of Four Proposed Borrow Areas and Archaeological Diver Identification and Evaluation of Eight Potentially Significant Submerged Targets for the Brevard County Shore Protection Project, Brevard County, Florida (Draft)
Part of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Resources project
Author(s): Gordon P. Watts, Jr.
Year: 1999
Summary
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District has proposed a shore protection project for two reaches along the Atlantic coastline in Brevard County, Florida. Sand for this project is to be dredged from four borrow areas in the Atlantic Ocean between Cape Canaveral and Patrick Air Force Base. In addition, a 1994 remote sensing investigation identified eight potentially significant targets within of one of those borrow areas.
In order to determine the proposed project's effects on potentially significant submerged cultural resources, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, contracted with Tidewater Atlantic Research Inc., (TAR) of Washington, North Carolina to conduct a remote sensing survey of the four proposed borrow areas and a diver investigation of the eight anomalies in the previously surveyed borrow area. Field research for that project was carried out as weather permitted between 27 October and 17 November 1998.
The results of the diver reconnaissance revealed that the large cluster of anomalies in the northern part of the survey area, CC-01, CC-02, CC-03, CC-04 and CC-05, and one other target, CC-08, were the remains of modern fishing vessels. The remaining anomalies, CC-07 and CC-09, were identified as modern debris. The remote sensing survey revealed no anomalies in either Borrow Area 1, the Sand Rehandling Area, or the Space Coast Shoals Area. Twenty remote sensing targets were identified in Borrow Area 2. Eight of those targets, C2-01, C2-02, C2-10, C2-ll, C2-12, C2-13, C2-14 and C2-16, contained signature characteristics indicative of submerged cultural resources and are recommended for further investigation m the event that proposed dredging activity could impact the sites
Cite this Record
A Submerged Cultural Resources Remote Sensing Survey of Four Proposed Borrow Areas and Archaeological Diver Identification and Evaluation of Eight Potentially Significant Submerged Targets for the Brevard County Shore Protection Project, Brevard County, Florida (Draft). Gordon P. Watts, Jr.. 1999 ( tDAR id: 469879) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8469879
Keywords
Geographic Keywords
Brevard (County)
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Cape Canaveral
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Florida (State / Territory)
Spatial Coverage
min long: -80.89; min lat: 28.207 ; max long: -80.5; max lat: 28.743 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Cape Canaveral Space Force Station CRM Manager
Submitted To(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District
Record Identifiers
Contract Number(s): DACW17-98-M-0272
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