Transco-Williams Dalton Expansion Project: Archaeological and Historic Resources Survey of Streams in Carroll County, Georgia

Cardno, Inc. (Cardno) has completed an addendum cultural resources survey in response to the need to mitigate stream sedimentation along the Dalton Expansion corridor, in northwestern Georgia. During construction of the Dalton Pipeline there were a series of weather events that caused soil to leave the construction zone. Specifically, sediment from the pipeline corridor penetrated control measures and has been deposited in undesirable locations, both within and outside of the workspace and pipeline corridor. Among the remediation measures proposed by Williams (Transco) is the removal of alluvium that has been washed into ponds, lakes, or other small waterbodies. Although Williams proposes to undertake sedimentation removal with hand tools, using no mechanized equipment so as to minimize potential ground disturbance, there still remains the potential for ground disturbance and cultural resources survey in areas beyond the previously surveyed pipeline corridor was requested. One such stream location is within Carroll County and is the subject of this report (Figure 1). This stream is designated here as S3CCA030. Stream S3CCA030 is located in the SE corner of Carroll County between Jones Mill Rd and Hutcheson Ferry Rd approximately 3.5 miles north of the town of Whitesburg, in Carroll County. The stream is flanked by moderate slopes with the survey area containing pine, beech, maple, and oak trees. The area surrounding the stream is an eroded upland above an ephemeral drainage, and has been subjected to a high level of disturbance through time as the result of power line installation and the creation of a two track road that bisects the upland ridge. A total of 4 shovel tests were excavated within the buffer zone of stream S3CCA030 (Figure 3). The moderate slopes surrounding this stream led to shovel tests which reached a maximum depth of 65 cmbs. The typical shovel test for the area exhibited a grayish brown (lOYR 5/2) loam or clay loam topsoil to a depth of 20 cmbs, followed by a pale red (2 .5YR 6/2) or strong brown (7.SYR 5/6) clay loam, and concluded at a pale red (2.5YR 6/2) clay. Cardno's archaeological survey of stream S3CCA030 yielded no cultural remains on the surface or in subsurface contexts and no historic structures or other surface features were located within the survey area of stream S3CCA030.