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 Mitigation Planning, Construction Monitoring and Compliance Bay Street Reservoir Water Main Replacement Project, City of Santa Cruz Project Managers: Jennifer Farquhar and Clinton Blount Date: 2005 - 2008 The City of Santa Cruz has contracted with Albion to provided cultural resource services for construction of the Bay Street Reservoir System Transmission Improvement Project, a major upgrade of the City's water system. The project is located in areas considered highly sensitive for prehistoric and historic-era archaeological resources, including the Mission Hill Historic District. Construction began in fall 2006. The project involved several tasks, including the following: Archaeological Resources Monitoring Plan Albion coordinated interests of the City of Santa Cruz, the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), and local Native American groups to develop a project-specific plan for archaeological monitoring during project construction. The Plan identified those segments of the project that required on-site monitoring and those that did not. The document also identified areas that required Native American participation. Included in the document was an Archaeological Treatment Plan, outlining procedures for addressing archaeological discoveries made during construction. The Plan addressed requirements under current CEQA guidelines as well as the Cultural Resources Element of the City of Santa Cruz General Plan. Worker Training Brochure Albion also developed a worker-training program, designed to inform non-archaeological project personnel of site characteristics and procedures for reporting a discovery. Archaeological Monitoring Albion provided archaeological monitoring of all ground-disturbing activities in areas determined to be sensitive for archaeological sites, with particular attention to areas close to known archaeological sites. Albion conducted data recovery at Laurent Street where human remains were uncovered during the monitoring. At the conclusion of the project, Albion produced a comprehensive monitoring report detailing the City's efforts to comply with requirements set forth in the Project Mitigated Negative Declaration. In addition to summarizing any new archaeological resources discovered, the report also documented subsurface contexts in areas of known archaeological resources, an invaluable resource for future City-sponsored projects in the area. Return to Mitigation Planning, Construction Monitoring and Compliance. |
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