Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project, Further Mitigation Program

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Managing Water, Protecting Heritage: Bureau of Reclamation Undertakings in the American West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project (NGWSP) is a large-scale project that when complete, will provide water to the eastern section of the Navajo Nation, southwestern portion of the Jicarilla Apache Nation, and the city of Gallup, New Mexico. The Bureau of Reclamation is responsible for considering the effects of the NGWSP on historic properties and the mitigation of adverse effects to those properties. Through continued consultation and collaboration, the Further Mitigation Program (FMP) was conceived. “Further” in this context infers that the program will go further than traditional Western-oriented archaeological mitigation (WCAO 2024). This paper discusses the FMP and its implications on the future of mitigation for Reclamation and for the West.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• Managing Water, Protecting Heritage: Bureau of Reclamation Undertakings in the American West

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 51170