2025-05-23 Draft ArchMonitorPlan

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Archaeological Monitoring Provisions HAR § 13-279-4, requires that each monitoring plan discuss eight specific questions. The monitoring provisions below address these requirements for archaeological monitoring within the current project area. 1)Anticipated Properties: Prior archaeological studies (Barna 2023; Corbin 2007; Haun& Associates 2003; Haun et al. 2002a; Haun et al. 2002b; Sinoto 1998; Thompson and Rosendahl 1992) have resulted in the identification and documentation of two historic properties within the current project area(Sites 50-10-06-23313 and 50-10-06-29221) (Figure 4). Site 23313 is a concrete foundation located in Keanuiomano Stream. Haun et al. (2002) initially interpreted this site as the foundation of a water pump and assessed it as significant under Criterion d for the information it yielded relative to historic land use. Site 29221 is the Waiaka Bridge, which is assessed as significant under Criteria c and d as a good example of a modest reinforced concrete slab bridge that embodies "[t]he distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction" and as the first Federal Aid bridge constructed on Hawaii Island(Log No. 2011.2731, Doc. No. 1108MA05). It is also assessed to be significant under Criterion d for the information it has yielded relative to historic land use. A third site (Site 50-10-06-22632), located adjacent to the current project area, consists of a pre-contact to early historic period agricultural complex that was initially identified by (Haun et al. 2002a) and documented in more detail by Haun et al. (2002b). That site was previously assessed as significant under Criteria a, c, and d. All three of these sites are discussed in an archaeological survey report prepared for the current project by Barna(2023), along with the former location of the 1865 Waiaka Catholic Church. Site 50-10-06-22632, a pre-contact to early historic period agricultural complex, is located adjacent to the project area in an area where no development activities associated with the proposed project will occur(Barna 2023). Site 50-10-06-23313, which Haun et al. (2002) had documented as a concrete foundation for a pump, was reassessed by Barna(2023) and interpreted as the Keanuiomano Stream Gage (United States Geological Survey [USGS] 16756500), which was constructed in 1955 and remains in use today (Figures 1 and 2). A condition update for Site 50-10-06-29221, the Waiaka Bridge, which will be replaced as a result of the current project and mitigated through the implementation of an MOA is provided in the Barna(2023)report. Additionally, the former location of the 1865 Waiaka Catholic Church, which burned down in 1900 and was rebuilt in 1916 before being moved to a new site near the intersection of Kawaihae Road and Lindsey Road, was identified by Barna(2023) as possibly being within the project area, but could not be positively identified and therefore not assigned an SIHP designation. As a result of the Barna(2023) identification effort, Site 50-10-06-23313, the USGS Keanuiomano Stream gaging station, was assessed as not significant. Site 50-10-06- 29221, the Waiaka Bridge, was assessed as significant under Criterion c and d.