archaeologyfieldwork.com - Not in My Backyard

Topic ID #7868 - posted 6/13/2010 8:56 AM

Not in My Backyard

moorele

Archaeology: Not in my backyard!

B.C. property owners discovered Indian remains and artifacts while building a house. Who should foot the bill for digging up the site?

http://crosscut.com/2010/04/27/mossback/19761/Archaeology:-Not-in-my-backyard!/

BTW, the term Backyard Archaeology likely dates to the mid 1990s when some of us presented at the SHA Cincinnati conference on public archaeology.

CRM
Canada

Post ID#17776 - replied 6/15/2010 2:14 PM

FireArch

Moderator

Part of the cost of doing business. The proponent is "improving" the land, and thus adding "value" to it (and will likely be rewarded financially for those "improvements"), so baring the cost of complying with regs and laws comes as part of that process.

Post ID#17778 - replied 6/16/2010 5:46 AM

Dmack89

...Or - could the location of the home have been shifted a bit to avoid some (or all) of hte deposits? A good preliminary survey may have been more expensive up front, but saved huge costs associated with all the mitigation work that needed to be done - making the overall cost to the parties causing damage to the resource (not the public) easier to handle.

- so if they were doing a project that polluted the water supply (air, dumped toxins in the ground, BP, etc.) - should the homeowner or the public be responsible for bearing the cost - after all it is for the public's benefit, not her personal benefit that measuresto protect the water downstream need to taken.

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