Wheaton, Thomas R.

New South Associates, Inc. surveyed the approximately six mile long, 300 foot wide, West Cobb Loop corridor with a two person crew between July 19 and 23, 1993. The area surveyed closely follows the originally proposed Alternate 1, which runs mostly along Noses Creek.

The purpose of this project was to locate all cultural resources potentially eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places and to provide sufficient historical and archaeological research by which management decisions concerning the cultural resources could be made in an inte

In the course of the past month, on-site archaeological monitoring com­prised approximately ninety percent of the archaeologist's time. An additional ten percent consisted of historical research and report preparation.

New South Associates conducted an archaeological assessment and intensive survey of the proposed Murray Project for East Tennessee Natural Gas Company (ETNG) from November to December 2000.