Scripps Poway Parkway
The cultural resource study for Scripps Poway Parkway involved various phases of work from surveys of proposed alternatives, evaluations of resources within selected alternatives, mitigation of impacts, and construction monitoring.
The project was conducted for several agencies and regulatory requirements. For CEQA compliance, the City of Poway was the lead agency, with additional review by the County of San Diego and Caltrans. Additionally, a Federal 404 permit was required, which generated a need for a NHPA Section 106 review by the Army Corps of Engineers (USAOE). The Section 106 element of the study required that the affected resources be evaluated for eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places.
As a result of this National Register evaluation, one prehistoric site was identified as potentially eligible. The report prepared for the USAOE was also reviewed by the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO). The selected alignment for Scripps Poway Parkway could not avoid the site evaluated as eligible for the National Register, which then required that a Data Recovery Plan be developed under the authority of the USAOE to recover sufficient data from the significant prehistoric site to mitigate impacts and facilitate a finding of “no adverse effect” for the road project.
The data recovery program required negotiations with the USAOE, Caltrans, the City of Poway, and the SHPO to establish the scope of work and to facilitate the initiation of grading around the archaeological site while data recovery was in progress.
