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Public urged to avoid wreck; protected site is known to state marine archeology office
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The summer heatwave and low rainfall recently revealed a hidden shipwreck at the bottom of the Neches River, but its location was known to the Texas Historical Commission since surveys in the 2000s, and the site is protected under Texas state and federal law.
The wreck, sometimes visible to boaters and others using the river, is one of more than a dozen vessels that had been abandoned after…