An Intensive Cultural Resources Investigation for the Redbud Pump Station Transmission Water Line Project Collin County, Texas

Karen Belvin

doi:10.21112/ita.2020.1.20

Abstract

The City of McKinney (City) is proposing to construct and maintain 2.2 kilometers (km; 1.4 miles [mi]) of 42- inch (in) water transmission line for the Redbud Pump Station Transmission Water Line Project (Project) located within the City of McKinney, in west-central Collin County, Texas (Appendix A, Figure 1). On behalf of the City, BGE, Inc. (BGE) conducted an intensive pedestrian survey augmented by shovel testing of the Project. Because the proposed project is being contracted by the City of McKinney, a political subdivision of the state of Texas, the project sponsor is required under the Texas Antiquities Code and the Texas Natural Resources Code Chapter 26 ‘Rules of Practice and Procedure for the Antiquities Code of Texas’ to obtain a Texas Antiquities Permit to perform cultural resources investigations to assess whether cultural resources are present that may rise to the level of significance of State Antiquities Landmark (SAL) status. The Texas Historical Commission (THC) has assigned Antiquities Permit number 8763 to the Project. Furthermore, project construction designs minimize impacts to Waters of the United States (WOTUS) crossed by the project, not meeting the minimum threshhold established under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) for the requirement of a Pre-Construction Notification (PCN) to the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).

Highlights

The City of McKinney (City) is proposing to construct and maintain 2.2 kilometers of 42inch water transmission line for the Redbud Pump Station Transmission Water Line Project (Project) located within the City of McKinney, in west-central Collin County, Texas (Appendix A, Figure 1)
BGE recommends that portions of 41COL324 within the proposed project be determined as Ineligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), and the project be allowed to proceed without further consultation in the vicinity of 41COL324
The Texas Archeological Sites Atlas (TASA) records revealed that there have been eight previous cultural resources surveys conducted within the study area (Appendix A, Figure 10), three of which are intersected by the area of potential effect (APE) (Table 1)

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Introduction

The City of McKinney (City) is proposing to construct and maintain 2.2 kilometers (km; 1.4 miles [mi]) of 42inch (in) water transmission line for the Redbud Pump Station Transmission Water Line Project (Project) located within the City of McKinney, in west-central Collin County, Texas (Appendix A, Figure 1). Because the proposed project is being contracted by the City of McKinney, a political subdivision of the state of Texas, the project sponsor is required under the Texas Antiquities Code and the Texas Natural Resources Code Chapter 26 ‘Rules of Practice and Procedure for the Antiquities Code of Texas’ to obtain a Texas Antiquities Permit to perform cultural resources investigations to assess whether cultural resources are present that may rise to the level of significance of State Antiquities Landmark (SAL) status. In anticipation of the Project, BGE conducted a background literature review of available data on the Texas Archeological Sites Atlas (TASA) to identify previous cultural resources investigations and previously recorded archeological and historic resource sites within an 805-m (0.5-mi) study area. BGE examined literature on the geoarchaeology of north-central Texas and the potential for deeply buried cultural material in reasonable context, or the likelihood of possessing geoarcheological potential (Abbott 2011)

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