Wood, W. Dean

This report assesses the cultural resource sensitivity of three alternate locations for a pumped storage hydroelectric facility by comparing projections of numbers of archeological sites within project impact areas, and the amount of further work needed at those sites.

During the months April through September, 1973, an archaeological survey of portions of Greene, Morgan, and Putnam counties, Georgia was undertaken by the Laboratory of Archaeology at the University of Georgia in fulfillment of a contract between the university and the Department of Natural Reso

The cultural resources survey of the proposed 13 km (7.8 mi) New Light Church to Orange transmission line located six prehistoric and historic archeological sites and three isolated artifact occurrences. Five of the archeological sites are prehistoric low density lithic artifact scatters.

The Anthony Shoals site (9Ws5l) is located in Wilkes County of northeast Georgia at the backwaters of Clarks Hill Lake. Test excavations were conducted there in September 1987 to evaluate the impacts caused by looters and to ascertain whether portions of the site were still intact.

The government owned lands surrounding Allatoona Lake were intensively surveyed by Southeastern Archeological Services, Inc. Approximately 32,141 ac (13,013 ha) were examined and 1,063 historic and prehistoric sites were discovered and evaluated.

A cultural resources survey was conducted of a proposed transmission line and substation in western Cobb County, Georgia.

Oglethorpe Power Corporation is in the process of examining several alternative locations for a pumped-storage hydroelectric facility. one alternative location is in the Chattahoochee National Forest along Mill Creek in northeastern Murray County, Georgia, about 15 km northeast of Chatsworth.

A cultural resources reconnaissance survey of 1820 ac (736.5 ha) in the Oconee National Forest in Greene and Morgan Counties, Georgia, was conducted for the U.S. Forest Service. Nineteen prehistoric sites, nine historic sites, one rock pile site, and eleven artifact occurrences were located.

An unmarked historic cemetery was discovered at Fort Benning, Georgia, during the construction of the Carmouche Range.

A cultural resources reconnaissance survey of 2,055 ac (832 ha) in the Oconee National Forest in Jasper County, Georgia, along the Ocmulgee River was conducted for the U.S. Forest Service. Seventeen prehistoric and historic sites and eight artifact occurrences were located.