AHS has developed numerous construction monitoring plans and inadvertent discovery plans for various local, state, and federal agencies conducting ground disturbing activities in high probability or culturally-sensitive areas.
Construction monitoring may be recommended where the presence or integrity of cultural resources may not be known even after background research and a pedestrian survey has been conducted. Some government agencies require construction monitoring as a condition of a review process and/or permit approval (e.g., NEPA, Corps of Engineers permit, etc.).
When cultural resources are identified during construction monitoring, AHS is capable of quickly responding ensuring resource protection and project completion.
![Far view of an excavation site. There two people in gear spotting for another working who is in a bulldozer helping dig out the ground.](https://in.ewu.edu/ahs/wp-content/uploads/sites/196/2017/06/DSC_0787-1024x685.jpg)
![Photo of worker in an excavator digging up a road and two workers are by them. There is a second excavator in the back.](https://in.ewu.edu/ahs/wp-content/uploads/sites/196/2017/06/P1120187-1024x768.jpg)
![Photo of an excavator digging up a hole filled with water. There are two other workers looking down in the hole while another is holding a long rod in the hole.](https://in.ewu.edu/ahs/wp-content/uploads/sites/196/2017/06/DSC_0050-1024x683.jpg)