Schell Bridge archaeological survey in Northfield seeks out site’s Indigenous history
Elnu Abenaki Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Rich Holschuh, right, looks at a historical map of Northfield and surrounding areas on Tuesday with Historical Commission Vice Chair Joe Graveline. An archaeological survey is being done at the site of the Schell Bridge reconstruction project in an effort to find signs of Indigenous life. FOR THE RECORDER/DAN LITTLE
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Project archaeologist John Campbell works on completing a sampling survey Tuesday morning at the site of the Schell Bridge reconstruction project. FOR THE RECORDER/DAN LITTLE
Lisa Schoch, environmental protection specialist and senior historian for CDOT s environmental programs branch, explains it is the design that makes the Gunnison River Bridge on Highway 92 near Delta historic. The National Historic Preservation Act calls for the 83-year old camelback pony truss bridge to be put up for adoption. CDOT hopes someone repurposes it for a trail or other public or private use, but relocation and reassembly are the recipient s responsibility.
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Implementing section 404 of the Clean Water Act: How Florida is getting it done
John J. Truitt Share:
1,354 days. That’s how long it took Florida to assume section 404 of the Clean Water Act (section 404) covering the discharge of dredged or fill material into waters of the United States (WOTUS). Florida is only the third state, and the first since 1993, to assume section 404. In Florida, our wetlands are integral to our unique ecosystems, and their importance has been recognized at the state level for some time. For decades, wetland experts at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Water Management Districts (WMD) implemented the state’s wetland permitting scheme, environmental resource permits (ERP), under Chapter 373, Florida Statutes. Using that expertise, in 2017, Florida elected to explore assuming federal wetland permitting under section 404 and achieved that goal on December 18, 2020.
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Left to right: Second-grade students Ry DâEttore, Reagan Slaubaugh and Logan Husk kick a soccer ball at Harmar Elementary School in view of the blighted public nuisances at 115-117 Gilman Ave. in Marietta on Monday. (Photo by Janelle Patterson)
Two weeks to the day from the court declaration of blight and public nuisance, 115-117 Gilman Ave. still loomed in the overcast background of Harmar Elementary play Monday.
“We talk about that place being haunted and if there’s a bad guy there or something,” said Reagan Slaubaugh, 8, of Marietta, as she kicked a soccer ball with fellow second-grade students in the grass of the primary school.
RANDOLPH â The Potter Paleoindian Site on the east end of town in the Moose River Valley was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on Thursday, April 28, state archaeologist Mark Doperalski confirmed.
âThis site is an undisturbed, highly intact habitation that dates to approximately 12,500 to 12,000 years ago,â explains retired state archaeologist Richard âDickâ Boisvert of Deerfield, who led a number of âdigsâ there.
âThe Potter Site contains a series of intensively used workshop areas as well as household encampments,â he says. âThe site was located on the landscape (by early nomadic peoples) so as to take advantage of plant and animal resources close by the areas of occupation and also strategically positioned so as to be able to see herds of caribou as they made their seasonal migrations. Caribou were hunted for their meat, hides and antlers, all essential to the Paleoindiansâ survival.â