Mitigation Plan for the Salt-Gila Aqueduct

Author(s): Pat H. Stein

Year: 1979

Summary

In 1978, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) directed the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) to complete an intensive archaeological survey of the proposed alignment for the Salt-Gila Aqueduct, a feature of the Central Arizona Project. The survey area was 11,115 acres and included the 60 mile-long transmission line (with a typical width of 200 meters), three proposed utility line locations, one flood retention dike location, 11 possible spoil or realignment areas, and a subsidence well. Seventy archaeological sites were recorded during this survey, 25 of which were incorporated into 2 archaeological districts. Following pedestrian survey, the MNA also conducted archaeological testing at selected sites to evaluate their eligibility for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Both districts and nearly all of the sites were evaluated as significant because of the scientific data they could be expected to yield.

The survey had two general goals: 1) to assess the significance of archaeological resources in the project area and to recommend ways of mitigating adverse impacts to them which might result from construction and 2) to generate and synthesize data that would significantly enhance scientific knowledge about the project area, specifically about the use of the area through time.

This report addresses the first goal and provides a plan to mitigate the adverse impacts to NRHP eligible properties that might arise from construction.The synthetic report that addresses the second goal can be found at tDAR ID 53594.

Cite this Record

Mitigation Plan for the Salt-Gila Aqueduct. Pat H. Stein. Flagstaff, AZ: Museum of Northern Arizona. 1979 ( tDAR id: 53593) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8MP554P

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Keywords

Culture
Anglo • Archaic • Euroamerican • Historic • Historic Native American • Hohokam • Mexican • Mexican-American • Yuman

Material
Adobe • Andesite • Basalt • Black-on-Whiteware • Bone • Brass • Buffware • Building Materials • Burin • Casa Grande Red-on-Buffware • Ceramic • Chert • Chipped Stone • Clay • Cobble • Concrete • Fine Grained Basalt • Fire Cracked Rock • Gila Butte Red-on-Buffware • Gila Plainware • Gila Polychrome Ware • Gila Redware • Glass • Granite • Ground Stone • Jasper • Lower Colorado Buffware • Macrobotanical • Metal • Mineral • Obsidian • Plainware • Polychrome Ware • Purple Glass • Quartz • Quartzite • Redware • Rhyolite • Sacaton Red-on-Buffware • Salt Redware • Santa Cruz Red-on-Buffware • Shell • Slate • Tin • Tonto Polychrome Ware • Whiteware • Wingfield Plainware • Wood • Zea sp. Show More

Site Name
AZ AA:3:10 (MNA) • AZ AA:3:2 (MNA) • AZ AA:3:3 (MNA) • AZ AA:3:4 (MNA) • AZ AA:3:5 (MNA) • AZ AA:3:6 (MNA) • AZ AA:3:7 (MNA) • AZ AA:3:8 (MNA) • AZ AA:3:9 (MNA) • AZ U:10:1 (MNA) • AZ U:10:10 (ASM) • AZ U:10:10 (MNA) • AZ U:10:11 (ASM) • AZ U:10:11 (MNA) • AZ U:10:12 (MNA) • AZ U:10:13 (MNA) • AZ U:10:14 (MNA) • AZ U:10:15 (MNA) • AZ U:10:16 (MNA) • AZ U:10:17 (MNA) • AZ U:10:18 (MNA) • AZ U:10:2 (MNA) • AZ U:10:3 (MNA) • AZ U:10:4 (MNA) • AZ U:10:5 (ASM) • AZ U:10:5 (MNA) • AZ U:10:52 (ASU) • AZ U:10:6 (ASM) • AZ U:10:6 (MNA) • AZ U:10:7 (ASM) • AZ U:10:7 (MNA) • AZ U:10:8 (ASM) • AZ U:10:8 (MNA) • AZ U:10:9 (MNA) • AZ U:14:2 (MNA) • AZ U:14:31 (ASU) • AZ U:15:10 (ASU) • AZ U:15:10 (MNA) • AZ U:15:11 (ASU) • AZ U:15:11 (MNA) • AZ U:15:12 (ASU) • AZ U:15:12 (MNA) • AZ U:15:13 (ASM) • AZ U:15:13 (MNA) • AZ U:15:14 (MNA) • AZ U:15:15 (ASM) • AZ U:15:15 (MNA) • AZ U:15:16 (MNA) • AZ U:15:17 (MNA) • AZ U:15:18 (MNA) • AZ U:15:19 (ASM) • AZ U:15:19 (MNA) • AZ U:15:2 (MNA) • AZ U:15:20 (MNA) • AZ U:15:21 (MNA) • AZ U:15:22 (MNA) • AZ U:15:23 (MNA) • AZ U:15:24 (MNA) • AZ U:15:25 (MNA) • AZ U:15:26 (MNA) • AZ U:15:27 (MNA) • AZ U:15:28 (ASU) • AZ U:15:28 (MNA) • AZ U:15:29 (MNA) • AZ U:15:3 (ASU) • AZ U:15:3 (MNA) • AZ U:15:30 (ASU) • AZ U:15:30 (MNA) • AZ U:15:31 (MNA) • AZ U:15:32 (MNA) • AZ U:15:33 (MNA) • AZ U:15:34 (MNA) • AZ U:15:35 (MNA) • AZ U:15:36 (MNA) • AZ U:15:37 (MNA) • AZ U:15:38 (MNA) • AZ U:15:39 (MNA) • AZ U:15:4 (MNA) • AZ U:15:40 (MNA) • AZ U:15:41 (MNA) • AZ U:15:42 (MNA) • AZ U:15:43 (MNA) • AZ U:15:46 (ASM) • AZ U:15:47 (ASM) • AZ U:15:48 (ASM) • AZ U:15:5 (MNA) • AZ U:15:6 (MNA) • AZ U:15:7 (ASU) • AZ U:15:7 (MNA) • AZ U:15:8 (MNA) • AZ U:15:9 (MNA) • Florence 8:2 (Gila Pueblo) • Florence Cemetery • Los Canales Ruin • Mesquite Flats Ruin • NA15,610 • NA15,611 • NA15,612 • NA15,613 • NA15,614 • NA15,615 • NA15,616 • NA15,617 • NA15,618 • NA15,619 • NA15,620 • NA15,621 • NA15,622 • NA15,623 • NA15,624 • NA15,625 • NA15,626 • NA15,627 • NA15,628 • NA15,629 • NA15,630 • NA15,631 • NA15,632 • NA15,633 • NA15,634 • NA15,635 • NA15,636 • NA15,637 • NA15,638 • NA15,639 • NA15,640 • NA15,641 • NA15,642 • NA15,643 • NA15,644 • NA15,645 • NA15,646 • NA15,647 • NA15,648 • NA15,649 • NA15,650 • NA15,651 • NA15,652 • NA15,653 • NA15,654 • NA15,655 • NA15,656 • NA15,657 • NA15,658 • NA15,659 • NA15,660 • NA15,661 • NA15,662 • NA15,663 • NA15,664 • NA15,665 • NA15,666 • NA15,667 • NA15,668 • NA15,669 • NA15,670 • NA15,671 • NA15,672 • NA15,728 • NA15,756 • NA15,771 • NA15,772 • NA15,773 • NA15,774 • NA15,775 Show More

Site Type
Adobe Compound • Adobe Foundation • Adobe Pueblo • Agricultural or Herding • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Ball Court • Ball Court-Shaped Structure • Barbed Wire Fence • Basalt Petroglyph • Canal • Canal or Canal Feature • Cemetery • Cobble Platform • Cobble Room • Cobble Structure • Compound • Concrete Foundation • Concrete Trough • Core • Cremation • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Fence • Foundation • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Historic Structure • Homestead • House • House Foundation • Hunting / Trapping • Imhoff Tank • Lithic Scatter • Midden • Military Base • Military Structure • Non-Domestic Structures • Outbuilding • Oval Oven • Oven • Petroglyph • Pit • Pit House • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Platform • Plaza • Pueblo • Reservoir • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Roasting Pit • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Rock Alignment • Rock Art • Rock Pile • Rock Ring • Room • Room Block • Settlements • Sewage Treatment Plant • Sherd Scatter • Stone Oven • Structure • Tank • Trash Midden • Trash Mound • Trough Show More

Investigation Types
Reconnaissance / Survey

General
Andesite Flake • Ash • Basalt Core • Basalt Debitage • Basalt Flake • Basalt Hammerstone • Basalt Mano • Basalt Metate • Basalt Tool • Bifacial Chopper • Blade • Bottle • Bowl • Brass Window Wedge • Burial Marker • Burned Clay • Can • Central Arizona Project • Ceramic Bowl • Ceramic Jar • Ceramic Vessel • Charcoal • Chert Core • Chert Flake • Chert Lithic • Chert Projectile Point • Chert Scraper • Chopper • Cobble Mano • Coolidge-Florence Municipal Airport • Cross • Cupule (Zea sp.) • Debitage • Dicotyledon • Flake • Flake Tool • Florence Archeological District • Florence Retarding Dam • Glass Bottle • Granite Mano • Granite Reed Dam • Graver • Grinding Implement • Hammerstone • Hoe • Jar • Jasper Flake • Kernel (Zea sp.) • Knife • Lithic • Magma Railroad • Mano • Metate • Mitigation • Nail • Obsidian Tool • One-Handed Mano • Pounding Tool • Power Line Retarding Dam • Projectile Point • Quartz Debitage • Quartzite Mano • Quartz Tool • Queen Creek Archeological District • Rhyolite Core • Rhyolite Flake • Rhyolite Tool • Rittenhouse Air Force Auxiliary Field • Salt-Gila Aqueduct • Salt-Gila Aqueduct and Transmission System • Schist Blade • Schist Hoe • Scraper • Skull • Slab Metate • Slate Knife • Sonoran Style Architecture • Tin Can • Tool • Trash • Vessel • Vineyard Road Retarding Dam • Window Wedge • Wooden Cross Show More

Geographic Keywords
04999 (Fips Code) • All Counties (County) • Apache Junction, AZ • Arizona (State / Territory) • Florence, AZ • Florence Canal • Florence - Casa Grande Canal • Gila Floodplain • Gila River • Gila River Siphon • North America (Continent) • Picacho Reservoir • Queen Creek • Queen Creek Basin • Salt River • Siphon Draw • Superstition Mountains • Weekes Wash

Temporal Keywords
1890s • 1891 • 1910s • 1920s • 1930s • 1940s • 1950s • 19th Century • 20th Century • Classic Period • Colonial Period • Historic • Late Colonial Period • Prehistoric • Sedentary Period • World War II

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.621; min lat: 32.94 ; max long: -111.174; max lat: 33.378 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office

Landowner(s): Private Owner; Federal; State; City of Florence; Bureau of Land Management

Sponsor(s): USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office

Permitting Agency(s): Department of Interior; Arizona State Museum; Bureau of Land Management

Repository(s): Huhugam Heritage Center

Prepared By(s): Museum of Northern Arizona

Submitted To(s): USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office

Record Identifiers

Arizona State Museum Permit No. (s): 78-01

Bureau of Land Management Permit No.(s): PD-18

Department of the Interior Antiquities Act Permit No.(s): 75-AZ-102

NADB Citation ID No.(s): 000000168026

Contract or Grant No.(s): 8-07-32-V0043

NADB Document ID No.(s): 2203924

Report No.(s): DI-BR-APO-CCRS-79-I

Performing Oraganization Report No.(s): A-77-126

Notes

General Note: The copy of the document cited within NADB is available at Bureau of Reclamation, Box 25007, Denver CO 80255; and was sent to that address by the Museum of Northern Arizona.

File Information

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CCRS-1979-001-Mitigation-Plan-for-the-Salt-Gila-Aqueduct.pdf 8.63mb Apr 1, 1979 Mar 16, 2016 4:13:27 PM Confidential
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