PERMFILE105797

• Permit No: X198716820
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 9/23/1987
• Doc Name: A CULTURAL RESOURCES INVENTORY OF FOUR ALLUVIAL WELL LOCATIONS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

in 3200 acres. Given this density of only one known site
per section (640 acres), it was thought that the likelyhood
of finding a site in the nine acres inventoried for this
project was low.
5.0 FIELD l~THODS
Each of the proposed well locations and access roads were
closely inspected on the ground by a professional archaeologist
from Powers. In the case of the well pads a 100 by 100
ft area was covered using parallel transects spaced about
15 m apart. The access roads were walked using a single
sinuous transect covering 100 ft in width.
Well pad GW-S69 is on State of Colorado land in the NW1/4NW1/4
of Section 17, T.5N., R.86W. It is situated on the south
side of a western flowing drainage tributary of Fish Creek.
The pad was covered by grasses and weeds, with poor surface
visibility. The access road ran from the pad due south
to the top of a low ridge, then west to the existing two-track
trail at the power lines, a total distance of about 1,800
ft (Figure 3A). The ridgetop had fair visibility, since
the installation of a water well by a rancher had resulted
in heavy cattle grazing in this area. No cultural resources
were found either on the well pad or access route.
Well pad GW-S68 is on State of Colorado land in the SW1/4SE1/4
of Section 5, T.SN., R.86W. It is situated on the north
side of a western flowing drainage tributary of Fish Creek.
The pad was covered by thick grasses, and sagebrush.
Surface visibility was poor. The access was 100 ft long
to an existing two-track trail located just west of the
• pad. There was evidence of cattle grazing in the area
(Figure 3B). No cultural resources were found.
The Lower Grassy Creek well pad is on private property
in the SEt/4NE1/4 of Section 28, T.6N., R.87W. It is
situated in the sage covered bottoms of the valley where
a south flowing tributary joins Grassy Creek, on the south
side of the creek. Surface visibility was poor. The
access takes off from the pad westward, up a steep sandstone
canyon wall, then south on top of a terrace where it intersects
the improved road to the Seneca II mine office, covering
about 300 ft in length total (Figure 4A). No cultural
resources were found.
The Upper Grassy Creek well pad is on private property
in the NW1/4NW1/4 of Section 34, T.6N., R.87w. It is
situated on the west side of Grassy Creek, where the stream
cuts between two hills. The access runs north between
the creek and the hill to the west, about 1,300 ft to
.• the Seneca mine property line. The ground was covered
by thick grasses and sagebrush, and surface visibility