ML20040C238
| ML20040C238 | |
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| Site: | Perry  |
| Issue date: | 01/25/1982 |
| From: | Beck L CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING CO. |
| To: | Gilbert R NRC |
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| Download: ML20040C238 (5) | |
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Perry Iluelear Power Plant Docket IIos. 50-440; 50-441 Transmittal of Archaeological Reports
Dear Dr. Gilbert:
We are transmitting to you for your information four archaeo-logical reports. These are as follows:
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Report on Reconnaissance and Subsurface Archaeological Investigations of the CEI 345 KV Transmission Line:
Perry - Leroy Center 2.
Preliminary Report on Subsurface Archaeological Inves-tigations of the CEI 345 KV Transmission Line:
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Leroy Center - Macedonia - Cleveland Inland 3
A Summary Report on the Archaeological Survey and Testing of the Perry Iluelear Power Plant, Lake County, Ohio 4
A letter reporting on the final field work of the Phase II archaeological investigation for the Perry - Macedonia 345 KV transmission line.
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P. O. Box 5000 Cleveland, Ohio 44101
Dear Mr. Miner:
This letter is to report to you on the final field work, completed in July, of the Phase II -archaeological investigation for the Perry-Macedonia 345 kV Transmission Line.
Archaeologists were at the site of Tower Location 7045-B, as you notified me, on 19 June, 30 June, and 3 July. The drilling for the northwest leg at Tower Site 7045-B apparently hit the historic house foundation, mainly on the western portion of the piling hole. A sample of the brick from the brick and stone wall construction was salvaged. A small number of aoparently late nineteenth-century sherds were salvaged from this piling location, with additional sherds and metal found in the northwest leg location. Nothing of significance was found in the eastern' drillings. A summary sheet of the field supervisors' field notes is enclosed.
A description of the Phase II testing at Tower Locations 17029, 17041, and 17043 was included in the June report to you. A copy of the field supervisor's report on the Phase II archaeological inves-tigation done at Tower Location 7017-B on 6 March 1978 is enclosed.
Thus, unleu, es noted in our June report that additional tower sites are needec ir, the Grand River Valley itself, all archaeological work for the Perry-Macedonia 345 kV Transmission Line is complete.
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OF FIELD NOTES CEI Perry-Macedonia 345 kV Transmission Line i
19 June 1978 Tower Site 7045-B Crew: Lisa Murray, Eloise Gadus Work postponed.
30 June 1978 Tower Site 7045-B Crew: Jan Engebretsen, Eloise Gadus Tower legs A and B located approximately 50' from present lo-cation of house. Tower leg A approximately 15' from Chardon Road.
Each piling also about 15' from existing t6wer.
Two pilings dug today. Material recovered from traveling through backdirt. Dirt from 3 drill bites was looked at in both cases (third load included clay). Each piling approximately one meter across and 18' (5.5 m) deep. Clay encountered in both pilings at about one meter down (orange gray sandy clay).
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Tower L A
Hit foundation of previous house location at approximately l';
bricks found along with large boulders piled together (some 1 1/2-2' across); rocks found predominantly on left side of pit as viewed facing Chardon Road.
Over 20 boulders found,15 of which were at least 12" or more in diameter.
Four pieces brick; I sherd glazed ware (cream colored); 3 sherds glass (window).
Tower Lg B,(SW) 1 fragment cut glass; 2 sherds milk glass ceramic; 2 possible brick fragments; 3 sherds white porcelain; 1 fragment drainage tile; 1 nail; 1 piece barbed wire; 3 animal bone fragments.
3 July 1978 Tower Site 7045-B Crew: Eloise Gadus, Mark Doblekar Tower legs C (SE) and D (SW) are located about 40' from the present location of the house and about 20' from Chardon Road.
Work started on Leg D of Tower 7045-B at 8:00 A.M.
Two auger-bites removed the first 5 feet of dirt. The investigators examintd this backdirt with trowels and renoved 2 pieces of brick a~11 pi ace
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Summary of Field flotes--Continued Page 2 of blue and white circkery. The stratigraphy of the hole for leg D consisted of about a meter of top soil (gray black) from the surface down. Then, orange sandy clay 2 to 21/2 meters.
Below' the orange clay was gray sandy clay which extended to the final depth of 18 to 19 feet below surface.
Leg C was started at 10:00 A.M.
The first 5 auger bites were examined (5 feet). One nail and one piece of white crockery were recovered. The gray black topsoil was absent. A light orange-tan fill dirt replaced the topsoil. The owners of the existing house said that this area was leveled with fill dirt. Below the fill dirt was orange sandy clay; at about 10 feet the gray clay began. The final depth of the hole was 191/2 feet.
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Monday 6 March 1978 Cleveland Museum of Natural History Nancy Marie White Notes on observation of earth moving operations at tower location 7017-3,.CEI 345 kV Transmission Line, Perry-Leroy Center-Macedonia-Cleveland Inland.
As recommended in the report submitted by the archae-ologist in December, 1977, to CEI, I went to observe the exca-vations at this tower location before the tower was erected.
The landowner, Mr. Vanac, has a collection of prehistoric Indian artifacts collected from his property, and archaeological survey crews performing sample test excavations in this location in the fall of 1975 unearthed a few pieces of lithic debitage from what may have been prehistoric flint-working activity.
No actual prehistoric cultural features were discovered during the 1975 survey, but it was recommended that the archaeologist be present when more extensive excavations took place for the footers of the tower, just in case.
As the large auger drilled the holes into the ground (42"/107cm in diameter, up to 18'/5.5m deep) I was able to examine the soils, both before and after they were shaken off the bit.
I was able to examine the stratigraphy of the excavation walls from within the holes at depths up to 1.5m.
The foreman, B. Wolf, and crew were very courteous, helpful and interested.
.I examined materials from 2 such excavations and found only 2 small pieces of glacially smoothed flint.
The stratigraphy consisted of 15-20cm of dark topsoil (most of it frozen) overlying amedium brown silt loam which extended only a few em until it graded into a heavy yellow clay. At a depth of approximately 3.5-4m appeared a fine. silty sand, and shortly beneath that a coarser yellow sand, undoubtedly glacial in origin.
No artifacts or cultural features were encountered after inspecting these 2.
excavations. It was therefore felt that the probability of discovering anything in the additional 2 excavations would be quite low,and observation was discontinued. It was not felt that the tower construction activities were disturbing any significant cultural resources.
Time in the field:
4.5 hours5.787037e-5 days <br />0.00139 hours <br />8.267196e-6 weeks <br />1.9025e-6 months <br /> Tota 1' mileage:
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