A cultural resources survey was conducted by the author in August, 2003, of a series of eight proposed monitoring well sites and some 1,600 feet of access trails on National Forest lands near the County Landfill, Rabun County, Georgia. The land is located in the Boen Creek drainage, south east of the Rabun County High School, just off US 441, north of Wiley. The landfill itself is now County-owned and operated, but it was formerly National Forest, and is almost completely surrounded by Chattahoochee National Forest land today. Most of the land is very steep, with exception of the Boen Creek bottoms, and there were no indications of poor occupation or other cultural activities on it, either historic or prehistoric, beyond old road beds and disturbances from construction and erosion related to the adjacent landfill. The area was logged in the past and reforested in the past 30- 60 years. No bladed roads are anticipated for this project, and the wells themselves are to be quite small (6'x 6'). Since there were no significant cultural remains found in the locations surveyed, there should be no effect on the cultural resources of this area by the proposed monitoring well construction using rubber-tired equipment.
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