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 Mitigation Planning, Construction Monitoring and Compliance Santa Clara University Monitoring, Treatment Plans, and Excavation Projects Project Manager: Clinton Blount Date: 2001 - Present Albion has been providing a wide range of services to Santa Clara University since 2001. The University is situated on the sites of several versions of Mission Santa Clara (dating from the late 17th century), as well as the sites of the Native American and Spanish and Mexican period residents associated with the various mission sites. The University encounters archaeological deposits representing these resources in the course of campus maintenance and small-scale improvements in buildings, roads, and especially utilities. Albion has been monitoring and reporting on these campus projects for over four years, under the direction of the University's Facilities Department and Archaeological Laboratory. These efforts have resulted in the discovery of materials from the Spanish-Mission period through the American period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 2002 the University embarked on a major campus development plan, at sites within the current campus and on property recently acquired on the periphery of the campus. Called the Ten Year Capital Improved Plan, the project called for the improvement of the Orradre Library, construction of a new business school, other campus buildings and parking facilities. Since 2002, the University has added two new projects to the Ten Year Plan, a residential community for Jesuit faculty, and a student commons. Albion managed the preparation of a General Treatment Plan for the Project. This plan laid out the general history of the campus, the likelihood of encountering cultural resources, and the methods and techniques to be used to discover and evaluate resources. Albion then prepared "tiered" specific plans for each of the projects, detailing the potential for resources and providing specific guidance for field evaluations. Each of the specific plans has identified the potential for important resources, predictions borne out in subsequent field investigations. The general and specific plans were reviewed and approved by the City of Santa Clara and were also subjected to peer review. In 2004 and 2005 Albion has conducted exploratory excavations at four project sites, three of which produced very important materials, representing all historic periods on the campus. Albion moved directly into data recovery at several locations in order to meet the University's tight construction schedules. Albion also monitored sensitive areas during construction, and has conducted rapid recovery of several important features, during construction. Work at the University is ongoing. Return to Mitigation Planning, Construction Monitoring and Compliance. |
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