# The drains are the intake of an engineered flood system built before 1795.

> Disputed: The drains are the intake of an engineered flood system built before 1795.

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# The drains are the intake of an engineered flood system built before 1795.

The drains are the intake of an engineered flood system built before 1795.

**Disputed** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Disputed** One piece of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- The drains connect to a channel leading inland toward the pit.
- Timber and fibre in the drains date to before 1795.

## What would rule it out

- The drains end at the beach and connect to nothing.

## Evidence 1 for · 1 against

[Searchers in 1850 described five converging box drains under coconut fibre and eelgrass.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/evidence/EVD0D52XDM201Y0/searchers-in-1850-described-five-converging-box-drains-under)

Suggestive

FOR

[No channel from the drains to the pit has been found in 170 years of digging.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/evidence/EVD0D52XDVW6TFQ/no-channel-from-the-drains-to-the-pit-has-been-found-in-170)

Supported

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[What are the stone and timber structures at Smith's Cove?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/questions/QST0D52X3KR6V71/what-are-the-stone-and-timber-structures-at-smiths-cove)

Part of [Are the "flood tunnels" man-made?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/questions/QST0D52X3443MBJ/are-the-flood-tunnels-man-made)

Most likelyThe structures are wharves, slipways and coffer dams left by nineteenth- and twentieth-century searchers and…

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The drains are the intake of an engineered flood system built before 1795. [Answer ANS0D52XDC87X7Q]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D52XDC87X7Q
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