Already, with just 7 city blocks excavated, the Cypress Project has become California's largest urban historical archaeological project. The size of the effort--making sense of more than 550 pits, wells, and privies, with more to come--raises issues of equal magnitude: How best to dig, record, evaluate, curate, and report the findings in a world of diminishing space and other resources. Some of the answers are being implemented now. Others await the archaeology of the (perhaps near) future.