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Archeological Impact
In the Canyon Ranch Cultural Resources Review, the applicant's consulting firm concluded in writing that no historical sites would be impacted because none sit directly inside their property line.
However, their own map tells a different story.
On Page 10 of their report (Figure 5: Cultural Resources Study Area Map), the developer explicitly plots the exact coordinates for Archaeological Sites 41 CM 109 (designated in 1979) and 41 CM 110 (designated in 2015). These sit directly downstream in the natural watershed path.
Dispatching hundreds of thousands of gallons of daily wastewater effluent into this precise drainage corridor will likely cause rapid physical erosion and chemical degradation to an ancient site that the developer's own paperwork acknowledges is there.
The Devils Hollow archeological sites are a treasured resource of Mystic Shores. Our conservation committee arranges several on-site talks annually for our residents to learn about the history of our area.
In 2014, local volunteers partnered with a professional archaeological consultant to survey and catalog caves and rock shelters in Devil's Hollow Canyon. Artifacts recovered during the project—including projectile points spanning an estimated period from 6000 BC to 1100 AD—were analyzed by the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory (TARL), a research unit of the University of Texas at Austin. TARL's review and documentation of these findings resulted in the official recording of the site as 41 CM 110 by the Texas Historical Commission.
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