In November of 1979, the Columbus (Georgia) Water Works contracted with Frank T. Schnell, Archeologist, to conduct a cultural resource assessment of sections of the right bank of Bull Creek and the left bank of Flat Rock Branch. The Water Works ,is in the process of expanding sanitary sewerage lines into the easternmost portion of Columbus (Muscogee County), Georgia. Although the program is apparently being carried out with nonfederal funds, some of the pipelines pass through the northwestern corner of Fort Benning Military Reservation and a cultural resource assessment of this segment was required. The archeological survey of this particular section of Bull Creek and Flat Rock Branch detected or relocated six archeological sites, Five of these are aboriginal, one is euroamerican. Only two of these were determined to be both significant or potentially significant and potentially impacted by the construction of the pipeline.
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