In February and March 2010, Environmental Services, Inc. (ESI) performed an intensive cultural resource assessment survey at the Savannah International Airport - North Aviation Development Tract in Chatham County, Georgia, on behalf of Savannah Airport Commission; the property is slated for airplane taxiway expansion. The goal of the survey was to locate, identify, delineate, and evaluate all cultural resources within the property, including prehistoric and historic archaeological sites, as well as historic structures. The cultural resource assessment survey included a pedestrian inspection combined with systematic shovel testing at 30 and 90-meter intervals. As a result of the Phase I cultural resource assessment survey, no new archaeological sites or historic structural remains were encountered. Modern debris was encountered in the eastern portion of the tract. The pedestrian inspection and subsurface testing revealed the property to be mostly poorly to very poorly drained. The closest cultural resource to the study area is nearly 0.5 miles to the north; there will be no affect on recorded archaeological sites or historic structures, or unrecorded historic structure by the proposed project.
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