Environmental Corporation of America (ECA) has completed an Archaeological Assessment for the federal undertaking at the subject site. The proposed undertaking would include a proposed 100-foot by 100-foot (30-meter by 30-meter) lease area that would include a 470-foot overall height guyed-type telecommunications structure and associated ground-level support equipment.
The facility would be accessible by a proposed approximate 816-foot long by 40-foot wide (249-meter by 12-meter) access/utility easement. Three proposed guy-wire easements would extend to the northeast, southeast, and west of the proposed tower center and would measure 380 feet long (116 meter) by 50 feet wide (15 meter). The proposed facility would be located off Highway 319, Coffee County, Georgia.
The Phase 1 Archaeological Survey, conducted by James Thomas, Field Archaeologist of ECA, for the proposed telecommunications structure, identified cultural artifacts within the APE for direct effects. Two secondary chert flakes were found in shovel test pit 20, adjacent to Highway 319. No delineation was conducted due to the close proximity of the shovel test pit to the highway and the prior negative shovel test pits along the proposed access/utility easements. An archaeological site form was submitted to the Georgia Archaeological Site file and an official
number 9CF325 has been assigned. Beside the two flakes, no other cultural artifacts were identified within the APE for direct effects. Because of a lack of diagnostic artifacts and the small number of artifacts recovered, ECA believes the site lacks significance and research potential and would not be eligible for inclusion to the NRHP. As a result, the proposed telecommunications tower will have no effect on any archaeological sites listed or eligible for
listed in the NRHP.
ECA believes that the proposed undertaking would have no effect on any historic or prehistoric archaeological resources that are listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Therefore, for archaeological cultural resources, we recommend no further consultation under Section 106 Review of the National Historic Preservation Act for this proposed undertaking.
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