An intensive archeological survey was conducted by the author on March 13, 1998 of three areas slated for construction within the Cartersville Water Pollution Control Plant on Pettit Creek. No archeological sites were found at the three proposed construction sites. Historic maps, 1943 aerial photographs, and the Georgia Archeological Site Files show no sites in the project area. The undeveloped portion of county land surrounding the existing facilities was surveyed at a reconnaissance level (no shovel tests). A farm house and barn that once existed just north of the existing facilities have been obliterated by grading and construction associated with a service building. One small portion of elevated land north of the existing facilities, an area now used to store pipe and other materials and which is fenced for a goat pen, has some potential to contain undisturbed archeological deposits. This area should be archeologically tested before earth disturbing activities take place at this specific location.
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