Per your request, Southeastern Archeological Services, Inc. recently completed an archeological survey of an L-shaped proposed new alignment of a portion of the above referenced transmission line. In connection with this proposed realignment, we also surveyed a triangular shaped parcel of land that extends westward from the north-south leg of the new alignment and that will include a new access road. As you know, we described our original archeological survey of the transmission line in a report dated April 17, 2014 (A Phase I Archeological Survey of the Proposed South Bainbridge - Climax, 230 kV Transmission Line, Decatur County, Georgia, by Chad O. Braley, 2014). In a letter report to you dated July 11, 2014, we reported on the survey of 11 proposed access roads leading to proposed structure locations. In a letter report to you dated October 3, 2014, we reported on the survey of one additional access road. The present letter report describes the current project area and results of our survey conducted on November 15, 2014, in which one archeological site was detected. We recommend that this prehistoric site, Site 9DR239, is not eligible to the National Register, and therefore that no significant archeological resources will be affected by the proposed new transmission line alignment or the new access road.
Our survey was conducted on November 15, 2014 by Ron Schoettmer. Schoettmer conducted the original survey of the transmission line itself in February, 20 14, and so was very familiar with the area and the potential for cultural resources. He had the aerial photo project map that you emailed to me on October 27, 2014 (Figure 1), which shows the original alignment of the transmission line (with faint green lines), the new alignment (with bold green lines) and the proposed new access road (with brown lines). We transcribed the area to be surveyed, that is, the new alignment of the transmission line and the new access road, onto an enlarged copy of the USGS topographic map of the area (Climax north quad). Schoettmer had both maps with him to conduct the survey. He was instructed to cover the entire triangular area between an existing road west of the proposed access road (faint green double lines in Figure 1) and the north-south section of the new transmission line alignment, and the east-west section of newly aligned transmission line.
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