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4.9 CULTURAL RESOURCES recorded and rerecorded sites. In addition,direct impacts from construction activities and placement of a housing and recreation development through the sites and their environs would significantly and irrevocably alter the long-term integrity of these significant cultural resources. Additionally, the construction of the truck haul route may further degrade or destroy a recorded archaeological site on the south side of the Mokelumne River. Mitigation 4.9-1(a) Impairment of the scientific potential of the various sites cannot be mitigated by capping the sites or excavating a portion of the affected area. Impacts to the visual quality of the setting and the visual connectivity of the various sites cannot be mitigated without redesigning the project. Due to the severity of the impacts associated with the proposed plan and the rarity of the sites affected, impacts to the complex from the proposed housing and recreational development are also not mitigable unless the project is redesigned. The following elements of the proposed development must be abandoned at their present location on highly significant archaeological sites and redesigned in areas designated low to moderate archaeological sensitivity (Figures 4.9-2 and 4.9-3): • Buckeye Drive from Coyote Court to, and including,Live Oak Court; • Deer Trail Court; • Valley Oak Drive south of the north lines of lots 21 and 22; • Lots 2, 3, 4, 11, 12, 13, 49,20, and 21 and and • The southern half of lots S and 14. In order to avoid known habitation and burial sites, the proposed access road and bridge to Davis Road should be moved 800 feet to the east from where it crosses Mokelumne River. The existing dirt road should not be altered, and because of previous disturbance, a three-foot layer of fill should be added. Golf links numbers 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, and 12,plus the club house, must be eliminated or relocated off known habitation and burial sites (see Figure 4.9-3). The southern margin of the proposed irrigated pasture land must be relocated 600 feet north of the southern border of the property to prevent further degradation of the site as a result of irrigation. Areas designated for storage of excavated landscaping soil must be moved to the eastern half of the project area. 4.9-10