Intensive Archaeological Reconnaissance Peachtree Creek Sewers

Under separate cover, we are submitting a Report of the results of the intensive reconnaissance along the construction right-of-way of the Peachtree Creek Relief Sewer. Since this data is more than one-hundred pages in length, we submit the following excerpt for your information. No sites, which would require further mitigation, were encountered within the right-of-way or zone of primary impact. Some few sites do occur in an area that could be considered as a zone of secondary impact, however this indirect impact is not considered to be an effect of sewer construction but rather of land-use trends developing out of the normal growth pattern of a large metropolitan center. Sites, or fragments thereof, including individual features of past human activities (such as single Civil War rifle pits) were identified during the intensive reconnaissance. In some instances this intensive investigation, by the very nature of testing, resolved the question of mitigation. In other words, the test excavation to identify the feature was terminal and left no cultural materials in-situ that would require further work. The present evidence suggests that the corridor of Peachtree Creek has been occupied by various cultural entities for a period not less than 8000 years and perhaps more.