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Administrative Draft Environmental Impact Report Gill Medical Center Project Results The records search did not identify any cultural resources within 0.5 mile of the Project Area.The nearest NRHP listed properties are five miles south of the Project Area. The nearest California Landmarks are located five miles north of the Project Area.The historic period maps and literature indicated that the Project Area was historically agricultural lands and was largely undeveloped until at least 1910 when an earthen canal was present, and by 1949 when an unimproved dirt road and a structure, a corral, were present. The nearest native American Villages indicated in ethnographic literature were along the Mokelumne River six miles north of the Project Area.The RealQuest property search did not indicate any buildings or structures within the Project Area. A search of the Sacred Lands File by the NAHC failed to indicate the presence of Native American cultural resources in the Project Area. No responses to the letters sent to the San Joaquin Historical Society have been received as of the preparation of this document. Ultimately, no potential Historical Resources were identified within 0.5 mile of the Project Area through the records search or literature review. During the pedestrian survey, two historic period cultural resources were identified: GW-001, a corral and dirt access road, and GW-002, a segment of the Woodbridge Irrigation District agricultural canal. GW-001 consists of the remains of a wooden corral and associated north-south trending dirt access road traveling north to the corral, which were present by 1949.The corral measures approximately 80 feet east-west by 55 feet north-south and is approximately five feet tall. The corral is made of wooden posts and boards that were once painted white but are now faded. A loading chute is located at the southern end of the corral, facing the access road. The corral also contains two pens and a concrete water trough. The dirt access road is approximately 30 feet wide and 645 feet long. The dirt access road appears as an unimproved roadway on the 1955 USGS Lodi South, California topographic map.According to the topographic map, the road leads to the southeastern portion of a structure, presumed to have represented the corral. GW-002 consists of a 0.5-mile-long segment of the Woodbridge Irrigation District agricultural canal. It is an open earthen canal measuring 20 to 25 ft wide and ranging between 4 and 10 ft deep. The canal is present on USGS maps by 1910 and was built as part of regional reclamation efforts in support of large- scale agricultural development in California in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.This canal segment represents the natural waterway that has been managed and maintained over time, and has not been fortified with structural improvements such as concrete or cobble lining;this segment is part of a larger network of canals, pipelines, and laterals drawing water from the Mokelumne River 6.5 miles north of the Project Area southward for agricultural irrigation. It is currently in use for this purpose. ECORP carried out historical and archival research to evaluate both resources within their respective historic contexts (ranching and agriculture, and water conveyance in the Central Valley and San Joaquin County).Archival research uncovered no evidence that these resources are associated with an important historical person or event or contributed to the broad patterns of history; they do not represent examples of any established architectural style or have uniquely artistic traits, and they do not have the potential to yield information important in pre-contact history or history. Therefore, they were evaluated as not Biological Resources 4.7-12 October 2021