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<br />Powers Elevation, Inc. <br />OIL WELL ELEVATIONS-LOCATIONS <br />ENVIRONMENTA4ARCMAEOLOGICAL SERVICES <br />PO. Bo>t 2912 <br />Oemer, Cobfa00 902012612 <br />Phone 303/3212217 <br />Toll Frae 1900~924~2650 <br />A CULTURAL RESOIIRCES INVEN'T'ORY OF <br />THREE ALIxJVIAL WELL LOCATIONS <br />ADJACENT TO THE PEABODY SENECA II COAL MINE, <br />RODTT COUNTY, COLORADO <br />1.0 <br />On May 31, 1988 the Peabody Coal Company, Western Division <br />(Peabody), issued Purchase Order No. 030076 to Powers <br />Elevation Co., Inc., Archaeology Department (Powers), to <br />conduct a cultural resources inventory of three proposed <br />alluvial well locations, and their access routes, adjacent <br />to the Seneca II coal mine, near Hayden, Routt County, <br />Colorado. These locations are found in Sections 28 and 34, <br />T.6N.,R.87W., and Section 18, T.5N.,R.86W.. Figures 1 and <br />2, which are portions of the Milner and Mount Harris, 7.5, <br />1971, U.S.G.S. topographic quadrangle maps, illustrate the <br />project locations. <br />The proposed action is the drilling of three alluvial water <br />monitoring wells. The well pads will impact an area about <br />50 ft sq. In addition, short access roads, to be used off <br />of existing roads, will be about 25 ft wide. To cover <br />this, a survey of a 100 ft sq area was conducted at each <br />well site, and a 100 ft wide corridor was inventoried for <br />the access roads. A total of 11 acres was examined for <br />this project. The purpose of the investigations is to <br />allow for the consideration of the impact of the proposed <br />action on significant cultural resources by the Colorado <br />Mine Land Reclamation Division (CMLRD). <br />The field work was conducted by Mr. Paul D. Friedman, M.A., <br />of Powers, on June 8, 1988, under Colorado Permit No. 88-4. <br />All field notes and photographic negatives from this <br />investigation are on file at the Denver office of Powers <br />Elevation. <br />2.0 ENVIRONMENT <br />The project area is situated within the Colorado Plateau <br />physiographic region. This region is generally composed of <br />flat-lying Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic sedimentary <br />rocks, sculptured by deep major drainages into a series of <br />tablelands and mesas. The project area is located west of <br />the Park Range, east of the Axial Basin, and south of the <br />. Yampa River, in a region characterized by moderate <br />geological downwarping. One well location is in Twentymile <br />Park, a broad, open area of low rolling terrain. <br />PMVF9S n Fv.nOM GO. wt. is MOT Aft •TED TO OA ~FFM1IATEO <br />