In December 2020, Trileaf Corporation (Trileaf) performed a cultural resource inventory survey for proposed self-support lattice telecommunications tower facility located in Grady County, Cairo, Georgia (Latitude: 30° 46’ 53.42” Longitude: -84° 17’ 27.21”). The project location is located within a cleared field associated with recent logging activities.
Tillman Infrastructure, LLC proposes the construction of a new self-support lattice telecommunications tower with a total height of 275 feet (83.8 meters). The new tower and associated equipment will be situated within a proposed approximate 100 x 100-foot (30.5 x 30.5 meter) cell tower lease area. A proposed approximate 30 x 32-foot (9.1 x 9.8 meter) access and utility easement will travel generally east away from the lease area to connect to Hammett Road. Total acreage of the new construction area is approximately 0.25 acres (0.10 Hectares).
Assistant Archaeology Project Manager/Senior Archaeologist Zach Horne, M.A., RPA, under the direction of Trileaf, performed this survey in response to the planned use of the above-described parcel and the potential impacts that such use might represent to archaeological and architectural cultural resources. The Phase I cultural resource survey was designed to discover all prehistoric and historical period cultural resources that might be present within the project area.
The field survey of the project area, which included a pedestrian survey, shovel testing, and visual inspection, found no evidence for the presence of archaeological or architectural properties in relation to the current project area’s Direct APE. Additionally, no National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)-listed or NRHP-eligible properties were identified within the project area’s Direct APE or the ¾-mile Visual APE. A review of archaeological sites and surveys, conducted through Georgia Archaeological Site Files (GASF 2020) by Zach Horne, M.A., RPA on November 30, 2020, identified no previously recorded archeological sites, and one (1) archaeological survey (9688) that were identified within 1-mile of the proposed project area.
Based on these findings, Trileaf recommends No Historic Properties within the Direct APE and No Historic Properties within the ¾-mile Visual APE. It is therefore recommended that project clearance be granted with no further investigation or evaluation of the project area relative to those resources.
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