The Alameda Corridor East Train Diversion Project (ACE) involved excavation under the existing railway to allow vehicular and pedestrian thoroughfares under the passenger and freight traffic. ArchaeoPaleo was awarded three separate underpasses: Ramona, Temple and East End.

ArchaeoPaleo provided the archaeology, cultural-historic building assessment, and paleontology technical sections of the Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS) for the Los Angeles Union Station-Anaheim (northern Orange County) segment of the 800 mile long California High-Speed Rail System. The proposed rail line will run from Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area to San Diego via Los Angeles, Orange County and Riverside. The high-speed trains would be traveling at speeds in access of 200 miles per hour.

ArchaeoPaleo has been awarded the 5-year on-call contract with MTA through Jones & Stokes (now part of IFC) to provide archaeological and paleontological monitoring and assessment services for several MTA projects throughout Los Angeles County, including the Gold Line Extension through downtown Los Angeles, the Mid-Wilshire light rail line from downtown Los Angeles westward past Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the La Brea Tar Pits along Wilshire Boulevard, the EXPO ROW light rail and bus line from downtown Los Angeles south past University of Southern California and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County westward towards Culver City and the Orange Line in the West San Fernando Valley. This project includes monitoring for new water, gas, sanitary sewer, and other utility lines throughout the MTA ROW in Los Angeles. There are three historic cemeteries within the Goldline passenger rail line route. ArchaeoPaleo has just assessed the signifiance level of the historic rail crossing guard gates along the historic red car line.

ArchaeoPaleo has been retained to provide technical services in support of Environmental Impact Report (EIR) /Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) documentation for San Bernardino Valley's Omnitrans sbX E Street Corridor Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Project which is the beginning of an extensive intermodal public transit system in the San Bernardino Valley. It runs between a residential/commercial area near Cal State San Bernardino and the city of Loma Linda with its university, medical center and VA hospital and through the government and business center of the City of San Bernardino.

ArchaeoPaleo has been awarded three contacts with the Los Angeles World Airports agency. One contract is for on-call services regarding an incidental discovery of cultural and paleontological resources at any one of the multiple airports managed by the agency. The second contract is the LAX midfield-tarmac for monitoring services for planned construction at the airport. The third contact is for Bradley Terminal at LAX.

This redevelopment project is located on the former George Airforce Base, within the current boundaries of the city of Victorville. ArchaeoPaleo was retained to provide technical documentation and construction monitoring services for the logistics center section of the overall project.

ArchaeoPaleo provided paleontologic monitoring services for this project that connected a 60 inch wide water pipeline from the California Aqueduct to the local canal system to provide water to the agricultural lands in Tupman and Buttonwillow, California near Bakersfield in Kern County.

ArchaeoPaleo provided a Phase 1 cultural and paleontologic assessment for this project which included provided a ten person week long field survey, extensive record and literature search and over two months of writing the documents for the EIR. The assessment included writing over 40 archaeological site records including Native American sites, canal and bridge assessments, and roadway assessments. The project description on-line on their web page states: "The project consist of the conversion of approximately 18 linear miles of canal with approximately 25 miles of pipeline in the northern third of the District's Buttonwillow Service Area's irrigation water delivery system from open earthen canals to a closed or semi-closed system."

ArchaeoPaleo was retained to provide technical services (field survey and record search) in support of Environmental Impact Report (EIR) /Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) documentation on the planning and construction of the Jensen Solids-Handling Filtration Facility located in Granada Hills.

This project for which ArchaeoPaleo provided the paleontological monitoring services realigned the main water pipeline in the West San Fernando Valley in the Porter Ranch area of the City of Los Angeles. The project site is part of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power’s Chatsworth and Granada pipelines. It replaced a 54-inch pre-stressed concrete cylinder pipe with welded steel pipes of the same dimension and installed a prefabricated manhole/pumping-well structure.

ArchaeoPaleo provided the archaeological and paleontological services under a three-year contract with LADWP through Aspen Environmental for all ongoing projects under LADWP. The “On-Call” contract includes power generation projects, power transmission and distribution projects, water storage treatment and distribution facilities and utility-related projects including the District Chilled Water Line on 2nd Street Downtown Los Angeles, Redmont Pumping Station, and District Center #144.

This project provides a major water pipeline running east of the Rio Hondo River along Loma Avenue and westward at the 60 Freeway then south along Rosemead Boulevard through Whittier Narrows Recreation Area in South El Monte, California. The pipeline varies in depth but runs through a large agricultural area and recreation/nature park to bring recycled and reclaimed water to golf courses, parks, and schools in the San Gabriel Valley.

The major agencies that are involved are: the Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the Los Angeles County Sanitation District, Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation, Caltrans, and the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. ArchaeoPaleo’s contributions were rendered by T.A. Rivard, the General Contractor through Tetra Tech, Inc.  ArchaeoPaleo provided the archaeology and paleontology monitoring and consulting services for the project. The project could have possibly run through the original location of the San Gabriel Mission and a Native American village site.

This project provided an additional pumping facility at the current Los Angeles County Sanitation District’s Whittier Narrows Water Reclamation Plant in the Whittier Narrows area. ArchaeoPaleo provided archaeological and paleontological services by monitoring the drilling for caissons and the excavations in native (non-fill) soil.

ArchaeoPaleo provided the archaeological and paleontological technical documentation in support of the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) /Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the 70-mile pipeline, reservoirs and pump stations of the Los Angeles/Kern Counties Recycled Water Project located in the Antelope Valley.

ArchaeoPaleo provided archaeological and paleontological monitoring services and technical documentation for various aspects of the Santa Monica Memorial Park Reservoir Project in the city of Santa Monica. The project included an underground water reservoir and assessment of historical buildings on the project site.

ArchaeoPaleo is providing the phase I archaeological and paleontological technical documentation for various aspects of the LADWP Harbor Recycling Pipeline Project located in the South Bay area of Los Angeles County. The project runs through Wilmington, Harbor City, Lomita and Torrance.

ArchaeoPaleo is providing archaeological and paleontological monitoring services and technical documentation for various aspects of the Los Alamitos Pump Station Project scretching across the boundary between Orange and Los Counties.

ArchaeoPaleo helped another firm with the archaeological and cultural site survey for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's (LADWP) Powerline Road Survey Project in the Mojave Desert.

ArchaeoPaleo provided archaeological and paleontological technical documentation services for the Penmar Water Quality Improvement Project along the historical electric car line between Venice and Santa Monica.

ArchaeoPaleo is providing archaeological and paleontological monitoring services and technical documentation for the Thousand Oaks Reservoir Project in Ventura County.

ArchaeoPaleo is providing archaeological and paleontological monitoring services and technical documentation for the Triunfo Sanitation District Conifer Tank Replacement Project in Ventura County.

ArchaeoPaleo provided archaeological and paleontological monitoring services and technical documentation for the Niland Gas Turbine Plant expansion. This project supplies utility services to the City of Niland and adjacent Imperial County areas within southern California. This project is a joint venture between the California Public Utilities Commission, the California Energy Commission, and the Imperial Irrigation District.

ArchaeoPaleo is providing archaeological and paleontological monitoring services and technical documentation for the Southern Gas Company's Bolsa Chica Wetlands Project. The company is being required to remove an approximately 0.9 mile section of a natural gas pipeline from the restoration area of the Bolsa Chica Wetlands Restoration Project in Orange County.

Garlock Sand and Gravel is a long-term mining operation on 356 acres to mine rock to make aggregate base for roads, highways, and other ground surfaces. The archaeological monitoring requirements are on a “As Needed” basis for a possible 20 year term. ArchaeoPaleo held three separate contracts with Service Rock throughout southern California. ArchaeoPaleo provided archaeological Phrase 1 Assessment of the property and prepared the technical documentation to be sent to the State of California and associated agencies.

ArchaeoPaleo provided archaeological and paleontological Phase I assessments and technical documentation for the 29 Palms Service Rock operations in 29 Palms in San Bernardino County.

ArchaeoPaleo currently supplies technical document and archaeological field monitoring services for each phase of the landfill expansion. This contract is on a long-term multi-year “As Needed” basis for archaeological consulting services for an unincorporated part of Los Angeles County in the Palmdale area.

ArchaeoPaleo currently supplies technical document and archaeological field monitoring services for each phase of the landfill expansion. This contract is on a long-term multi-year “As Needed” basis for archaeological consulting services in the City of Lancaster.

ArchaeoPaleo provided archaeological monitoring services and technical documentation for the Simi Valley operations.

The scope of ArchaeoPaleo’s work for this project is to help design a Feasibility Study that includes all documentation for mitigation and consulting services. The Los Angeles County's Department of Public Works, along with the George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, is working to correct site drainage affecting the active paleontologial site know as Pit 91 as well as the areas of Lake Pit and Oil Creek through solutions and corrective measures to discharge oily water runoff into the existing onsite storm drain system that connects to the flood control system. ArchaeoPaleo is providing professional services to investigate and contribute an effective solution to the problem. ArchaeoPaleo has also been retained to provide archaeological and paleontological monitoring services.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art received private funds to hire renowned architext Renzo Piano to design and transform the existing art museum complex into a state of the art, architecturally unique world-class art museum complex. To achieve this goal, they have to renovate a few buildings, remove the old parking structure, add a 20-foot deep storm drain and sewer project, replace and relocate utilities, construct a new larger underground parking structure, and add a new 80,000 square foot museum building. The art museum and the work conducted for this transformation is on the Hancock Park property at Wilshire and Fairfax in Los Angeles, California. Within the museum complex to the east of the art museum is the world famous La Brea Tar Pits. ArchaeoPaleo was hired to monitor the excavation work in this extremely sensitive fossil-bearing area. ArchaeoPaleo uncovered 23 separate large fossil pits that are the first recorded tar deposits found west of what was once called Ogden Avenue. The data recovery and research on these 23 pits are collectively known as Project 23.

ArchaeoPaleo worked with the governing board of the Banning Museum in Wilmington on its renovation project.

ArchaeoPaleo provided archaeological and paleontological Phase I technical documentation services for the FEMA-funded cleanup after the 100-year rains of 2008 within Newport Bay, Carbon Canyon and Laguna Wilderness Parks.

ArchaeoPaleo provided archaeological technical services for aspects of the Joann Street Bike Trail Project in the City of Costa Mesa.

ArchaeoPaleo provided archaeological and paleontological monitoring services and technical documentation for the Culver City Dog Park Project for the City Culver City's Department of Parks and Recreation.

ArchaeoPaleo supplied construction monitoring services for the first part of the renovation to El Cariso Cummunity Regional Park in Sylmar, California. This renovation included building a new gymnasium, new water and utility lines, and enlarging the existing parking area for the park. Additional development will continue in another phase of the project during 2013.

ArchaeoPaleo is providing archaeological and paleontological monitoring services and technical documentation for the renovation of the Malibu Legacy Park within the City of Malibu near the Malibu City Hall facility.

ArchaeoPaleo provided archaeological and paleontological monitoring services and technical documentation for the Palos Verdes'Del Cerra Park Renovation Project in Rancho Palos Verdes.

The Veterans Administration's West Los Angeles Campus in Westwood is constructing new buildings for a 396-bed facility to house disabled veterans. This facility is located on the same property as the historic buildings that currently house the Brentwood and Wadsworth theaters and the current State Veterans Home and Medical Facility. ArchaeoPaleo provided archaeological and paleontological monitoring services and technical documentation.

ArchaeoPaleo provided archaeological and paleontological monitoring services and technical documentation for the Malibu Median Enhancement Project located near Malibu City Hall.

ArchaeoPaleo provided archaeological and paleontological monitoring services and technical documentation for the South Coast Highway Project in historic South Laguna Beach. This project was guided by CalTrans.

ArchaeoPaleo provided Phase I technical documentation for the Newhall/Santa Clarita Road Enhancement Project within historic Newhall.

ArchaeoPaleo is providing archaeological and paleontological monitoring services and technical documentation for the San Gabriel Discovery Center Project in the City of San Gabriel.

ArchaeoPaleo is providing archaeological and paleontological Phase I technical documentation for the Agoura Road Widening Project in the City of Agoura. This project traverses the length of the city and is situated near/on the historical Camino Real route, the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historical Trail and a prehistoric Chumash trail.

ArchaeoPaleo is providing paleontological monitoring services and technical documentation for the construction of South Regional High School #15 (near Angel’s Gate Continuation Senior High School) in the northwestern section of former Fort MacArthur’s UpperReservation site in the City of San Pedro.

West Los Angeles College is located on the west-facing base of the Baldwin Hills in the unincorporated area of Los Angeles County near Culver City, CA. ArchaeoPaleo Resource Management, Inc. was commissioned by Jones & Stokes (now part of IFC) to provide paleontological monitoring services during the grading operation for a two-story parking structure for the ever-growing campus.

University High School is located in West Los Angeles on Barrington Avenue. ArchaeoPaleo Resource Management, Inc. was commissioned to provide archaeological and paleontological monitoring services during the grading operation for the utility replacement next to The Springs Native American site on the campus.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for all archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for the residential development project within city of Newhall's downtown specific plan area.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for all archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements on this several thousand-acre 1000+ home community project. It is also a large linear project in the Department of Water Resources jurisdiction with the associated California Aquaduct involving nine large sewer and storm drain projects, mass grading excavation to 40+ feep deep encompassing work in the San Andreas Fault line. The project includes a fire station, a school, many parks, horse and bicycle trails, a golf course, several million gallon water tanks, and a community retail development. This contract is for 6 to 10 year and encompasses working within the conditions of Edison, Department of Water Resources (California Aqueduct), the County of Los Angeles and the City of Palmdale. There are over 60 Native American sites, including two villages, on the project site. One of the villages has a Native American burial site next to a 6 lane highway. ArchaeoPaleo negotiated the alignment of the highway to avoid contacting additional burials. The famous fossiliferous Anaverde Formation is on the property.

This is a multi-phase residential community at Barrel Springs Road associated with proposed elementary school and community college. ArchaeoPaleo provides the archaeological and paleontological services. This project includes mitigation of the original waterway of the Antelope Valley: the Palmdale Ditch.

This housing project consists of a large upscale housing development nestled in the southwest section of Palmdale, California. The development contains its own water resources and water tanks to serve the new residents. Historic mining claims are located on the property. ArchaeoPaleo prepared the technical documentation in suppport of EIR/EIS as well as a Phase 1 archaeological assessment of over 500 acres of property adjacent to and including several historical trails, roadways and the Department of Water Resources California Aqueduct, and supplied construction monitoring services.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for all archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this 300-acre residential development project in Moorpark.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide technical writing services for all archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this residential development project in San Pedro.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide Phase I cultural assessment services for this private development near a known Native American site in the hills of La Cañada/Flintridge.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide cultural resource Phase I assessment services for a tract map property spilt in Somis.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for all archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this residential development project in the City of Palmdale.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for all archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this residential development project in the City of Lancaster.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for all archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this residential development project in the City of Lancaster.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field services for the archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this residential development project in the City of Rosamond.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for all archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this residential development project in Los Angeles.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for all archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this residential development project in the City of Diamond Bar.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for all archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this residential development project in the City of Lancaster.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for a residential tract map property split in the community of Agua Dulce in Los Angeles County.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for all archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this residential development project in the City of Palmdale.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for all archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this residential development project in the City of Dana Point.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for all archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this residential development project in the City of Calabasas.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for all archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this residential development project in the City of Palmdale.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for all archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for a residential development project in the community of Acton in Los Angeles County.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field services for all archaeological, cultural, and historical requirements for a residential development project in the City of San Gabriel next to the San Gabriel Mission.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for all archaeological, cultural, and historical requirements for this residential development project in the City of Diamond Bar.

On these two projects, ArchaeoPaleo provided the archaeological and paleontological monitoring and technical documentation services, including historic building assessments.

The Grove at Farmers Market is an upscale outside retail center. It was built on a historic site owned by the Gilmore Family. It was built next to the family's historic adobe and the famous historic Farmers Market. This area is part of the historic Wilshire Corridor area at Fairfax and 3rd Streets Redevelopment overlay zone in Los Angeles.

 

The Lakes in Thousand Oaks is an upscale retail shopping center on the City of Thousand Oaks Civic Center land adjacent to the Civic Center itself. We encountered a Native American site and a fossil mastodon jaw on the project, which was historically used for the Jungleland movie animal zoo. This fossil mastodon jaw was the first of its kind to be found in the area.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for the archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this commercial development project in the historic Farmers Market in the city of Los Angeles.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for the archaeological, cultural, and historical requirements for this commercial development project in the City of Simi Valley.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for the archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this commercial development project in the City of La Habra on Beach Boulevard (State Route 39) between Whittier Boulevard and Leffingwell Road/La Habra Boulevard.

The Costco Retail Center is located south of State Highway 111 near the Jefferson Street intersection and the Whitewhite River wash in the City of La Quinta in the low desert of Riverside County. ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for the archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this commercial development project.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for the archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this commercial development project in the City of Palmdale. The standing adobe on site was previously used and adapted for a house, Mexican restaurant, rib joint, mortuary and child day care center.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide technical writing services for the archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this commercial development project within the historic section of Hollywood.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for the archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this commercial development project in the City of Monrovia.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for the archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this commercial development project in the City of Vernon.

Symantec Corporation, designer of the Norton Anti-Virus computer program, built a multi-building campus to house all of their offices into one “campus” type facility. The construction involved mass grading of 11 acres up to 60 feet deep. ArchaeoPaleo was hired to provide archaeological, historical, and paleontologic monitoring services for this large project in the City of Culver City.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for the archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this commercial development project in the City of Murrieta.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for the archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this commercial development project in downtown Los Angeles.

ArchaeoPaleo was contracted to provide field and technical writing services for all archaeological, cultural, historical, and paleontologic requirements for this commercial development in the City of Lancaster.