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<br />Final Draft - Preferred Storage Options Plan <br />Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District <br />June 8, 2000 <br /> <br />4.4 Cultural Resource Issues <br /> <br />Cultural resources in the study areas for each storage option were inventoried from a variety of <br />data and record sources. The inventory identified 236 recorded sites having cultural <br />significance, as follows: <br /> <br />SUMMARY OF CURRENTLY KNOWN <br />CULTURAL RESOURCE SITES <br /> <br /> Number of Potentially Significant Cultural Resource Sitesl1) <br /> Both Pre- <br /> Historic and <br />Location Prehistoric Historic Historic Total <br />Pueblo Reservoir 89 - - 89 <br />Turquoise Lake 9 3 - 12 <br />Twin Lakesl2l 72 28 33 133 <br />Lake Meredith - - - - <br />Williams Creek - - - - <br />Gravel Lakes - 2 - 2 <br />Total 170 33 33 236 <br /> <br />('j Note that 170 of the total sites are only minimally recorded and may require re-evaluation. <br />m Included in the inventory because of re-operation. Enlargement of Twin Lakes is not included in any of the <br />altematives being evaluated. <br /> <br />Re-operation would not involve any changes to the physical features at Pueblo Reservoir, Twin <br />Lakes, or Turquoise Lake. Therefore, no further cultural resources work is anticipated to be <br />required for re-operation. Enlargement of Pueblo Reservoir is likely to require a significant <br />cultural resources investigation. The 89 recorded sites at Pueblo Reservoir are judged to be <br />minimally recorded and would need to be re-visited and documented according to present-day <br />recording standards. The area between the present high water line and the raised pool high water <br />line, and not previously surveyed, will need to be inventoried as well. <br /> <br />The likelihood is high that there are a large number of previously unrecorded pre-historic and <br />historic sites in the area. Many of these may be significant and require thorough study, <br />documentation, and mitigation. Although the impact area at Turquoise Lake will be much <br />smaller than at Pueblo Reservoir, little inventory has been completed and fairly intensive efforts <br />are anticipated to be needed in order to document cultural resources and undertake the mitigation <br /> <br />m GEl Consultants, Inc. <br /> <br />4-8 <br /> <br />J:\PROJECTS\9906I\Replru\Prderred SOP FinaL...pd <br />