Author: Elden Johnson

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Published: 1981

Total Pages: 154

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A literature search, records review, and reconnaissance or Phase I field survey was conducted by a University of Minnesota research team in the area of a proposed flood project in Chaska, Minnesota, on the lower Minnesota River. The literature search and records review included the entire Chaska area and its environs and while that search did not disclose any prehistoric or historic sites or places in the specific project area surveyed here, it did produce a number of potential and actual National Register sites and places in Chaska according to the records of the State Prehistoric Office in September 1980. The comprehensive literature search and records review done here should be adequate for any additional Phase I field testing on other segments of the Chaska flood control project. The field testing was confined to the West Chaska Creek diversion, the portion of Alternate 2 lying at an elevation above the river flood plain, and the portion of Alternate 3 lying at an elevation above the river flood plain. Field testing consisted of a visual surface examination of the three right-of-ways followed by shovel testing of right-of-way segments not already impacted and where land owner permission was obtained. The field shovel testing was negative. No prehistoric materials were located in the test areas. No further work is recommended for the project areas covered in this report.