Bainbridge College in Bainbridge, Georgia wishes to construct a new building with a parking area on the north end of campus, immediately south of US 84. The area required for the improvements is an irregularly shaped tract, measuring approximately 2 ha (5 ac) in size (Figures 1 and 4). The proposed building will be more or less centrally located on the tract, immediately west of the campus entrance, with the parking area will be at an old borrow pit in the southeast portion of the tract. In compliance with the Georgia Environmental Protection Act, Southeastern Archeological Services, Inc. (SAS) contracted with Goode Van Slyke to conduct an intensive archeological survey of the project area. The project area is currently vegetated with widely-spaced mature hardwoods with no understory, creating a park-like appearance with a great deal of surface exposure (Figures 2 and 3). Running through the southeastern portion of the tract is a paved campus entrance road and College Road skirts the western side. Southeast of the paved campus road is a shallow depression that was once a borrow pit. Running southwest-northeast across the northwestern corner of the tract is a shallow, channelized drainage the provides an overflow channel for Twin Lakes. The majority of the project is nearly level, with only a gradual slope northwest toward the overflow channel.
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