Nacimiento Water Project, San Luis Obispo County Project Manager: Jennifer Farquhar Date: 2006 - Present Under a subcontract agreement with Environmental Science Associates (ESA), Albion is currently providing cultural resource services for the Nacimiento Water Project (NWP), a 45-mile water pipeline that runs through western San Luis Obispo County. Albion's role includes coordination of the Section 106 consultation among the San Luis Obispo Flood Control and Water Conservation District, the US Army Corps of Engineers, the National Guard Bureau, the California National Guard, and the California State Historic Preservation Officer, and authoring the Project Memorandum of Agreement (MOA). During this effort, Albion developed an Archaeological Research Design/Treatment Plan to outline procedures for recovering data from archaeological sites that will sustain adverse effects during the course of the construction. Other studies conducted by Albion during the Section 106 consultation include an Extended Phase I study to identify areas requiring further archaeological evaluation, and a geoarchaeological assessment of the project corridor to identify areas that may be sensitive for buried cultural deposits. Albion is scheduled to begin Evaluation and Data Recovery excavations at seventeen prehistoric sites in Spring of 2008. Albion is currently to providing 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. Return to "Mitigation Planning."
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