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Laredo Utility Relocation Project, Chacon Creek, Webb County, Texas, Anthony S. Lyle
Laredo Utility Relocation Project, Chacon Creek, Webb County, Texas, Anthony S. Lyle
Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State
In August of 2000, archaeologists from the Center for Archaeological Research (CAR) at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) were contracted to test for archaeological deposits along the route of a proposed utility pipeline relocation in Laredo, Texas. The route of the proposed pipeline relocation will impact a 690-foot (210 m) section along Meadow Avenue at the bridge crossing Chacon Creek, in Laredo. CAR archaeologists monitored the excavation of six backhoe trenches along the proposed relocation route in order to test for buried cultural materials. No intact cultural deposits were encountered. The majority of the tested section was …