An interpretive trail guide picked up at the center explains the trail, about seven-tenths of a mile long, that winds visitors past the burial mound, a low temple mound and a borrow pit, where workers picked up the dirt used to construct the mounds.
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At this time, Los Hornos, now centered on Hardy Dr south of US 60 and north of Baseline Road, consisted of about 15 residential compounds, a large central plaza, a large rectangular platform mound with an associated compound, several large trash mounds, and numerous borrow pits and inhumation and cremation cemeteries.
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One of the largest borrow pits in the harbor, and the one suggested by the Port Authority with the approval of the Corps of Engineers, is East Bank Pit No . 6-- a squiggle-shaped, 70-foot-deep, one-and-a half-mile-long gouge in the sea bottom, a half mile south of Sea Gate on Coney Island.
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In a statement released last Tuesday after the EPA test results were announced, the director of the Port Authority's port department, Lillian C . Liburdi, said the authority is looking for an alternate dumping site in what is called a " borrow pit "-- a pit that is the product of previous sand-mining operations.
