The Emmie Conine Relief Sewer will be constructed in a heavily urbanized section of Morrow, Georgia. For much of its route, it parallels an existing sewer line and in some sectors, utilizes an existing permanent easement acquired for the original sewer. Approximately sixty percent of the line is located within the backyards of landscaped suburban homesteads. Since the majority of the right-of-way was located in landscaped terrain, and because of the danger and liability of having open test units, it was decided to employ an eight-inch diameter posthole digger as the basis for subsurface testing. Post hole tests were spaced according to the nature of the surface terrain: i.e. areas of exposed C Horizon clay were not investigated except by surface observation. No materials were found that could be considered as prehistorically derived nor were any materials found that could be construed as being of historical importance. The majority of materials recovered dated no earlier than the 1940-1950 period and were discarded in the field. Only those areas exhibiting A or B Horizon soils were tested. Tests ranged from ten foot intervals up to fifty foot intervals, based on the decision of Marvin T. Smith, the supervisory archeologist, assisted by Edward I. Dittmar, the staff geologist.
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