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  • Flood Control - Kapalama, Honolulu HI
    A Public Works Administration grant of $310,909 funded new construction and improvement work on flood control in the Kapalama neighborhood of Honolulu. Docket No. TH-1004-DS.
  • Flood Control - Owego NY
    The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) employed fifteen laborers to conduct flood control work for two thousand feet along Owego Creek. The activity involved timber cribbing and diking "to protect the banks washed out in the July and March floods." The WPA photo above shows WPA workers filling in back of the dike "...with stone and shale rock" (WPA).  
  • Flood Control - Panaca NV
    The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) developed what was known as the Panaca Project, an attempt to protect the eastern Nevada town from floods. The CCC constructed a "12,590-foot earthen dike and a mile-long canal around the outskirts of town." Unfortunately the improvements proved short-lived.
  • Flood Control - Waialua HI
    The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded new construction or improvement work for a flood control project in Waialua, Oahu. The PWA grant amounted to $56,700. The work was carried out in 1938. The project, listed as Docket No. TH-1051-F, was part of the PWA’s non-federal projects expenditures for the Territory of Hawaii for 1938-1939.
  • Flood Control - West Sacramento CA
    WPA Job Card: WPA Project No. 65-3-4804, Approval Date 2-18-36, $7,711, "Sacramento River By-pass. Levee reconstruction. Move levees running across by-pass, the dirt to be scraped into the paralleling ditch from which it originated." (Reclamation Bd.) "WPA Project No. 6654, Yolo County, commenced operations on April 2nd since which time an average of 31 men have been employed on clearing brush and timber from levees of the Sacramento By-pass and poisoning squirrels."  
  • Flood Control and Range Conservation - Grand County UT
    The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was quite active in Grand County, Utah.  Four CCC camps were established in and around Moab, the county seat.  The first was the Warner Lake Camp, F-20, in 1933 under the US Forest Service, which also ran camp PE-214.  These camps worked principally on road construction and flood control on Mill Creek.   The biggest and longest lived of the CCC camps in the county was the Dalton Wells Camp, DG-32, running from 1935 to 1941.  That camp operated under the Division of Grazing of the General Land Office (predecessor of the Bureau of Land Management), working around...
  • Flood Control Dike - Chicopee MA
    In response to heavy flooding after a severe storm in 1936, Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) labor—under the direction of U.S. Army engineers—constructed dikes along the Connecticut River in many Massachusetts communities, including Chicopee. The exact status and locations of these dikes is presently unknown to Living New Deal.
  • Flood Control Dike - Holyoke MA
    In response to heavy flooding after a severe storm in 1936, Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) labor—under the direction of U.S. Army engineers—constructed dikes along the Connecticut River in many Massachusetts communities, including Holyoke. The exact status and locations of these dikes is presently unknown to Living New Deal.
  • Flood Control Dike - Montague MA
    In response to heavy flooding after a severe storm in 1936, Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) labor—under the direction of U.S. Army engineers—constructed dikes along the Connecticut River in many Massachusetts communities, including Montague. The exact status and locations of these dikes is presently unknown to Living New Deal.
  • Flood Control Dike - Northampton MA
    In response to heavy flooding after a severe storm in 1936, Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) labor—under the direction of U.S. Army engineers—constructed dikes along the Connecticut River in many Massachusetts communities, including Northampton. The exact status and locations of these dikes is presently unknown to Living New Deal. WPA project details: "Provide flood protection by constructing a new earth dike and enlargening existing dike" Official Project Number: 713‐2‐87 Total project cost: $215,000.00 Sponsor: War Department
  • Flood Control Dike - Springfield MA
    W.P.A. Bulletin, 1937: "ew projects will build two huge dikes in Springfield and its sister community, West Springfield, at a cost to the government of $304,000. At its peak, next spring, the projects will employ about 500. ... The Springfield dike will extend from the North End bridge to the Boston & Albany Railroad bridge. There will be 3000 feet of earth embankment and 1000 feet of concrete seawall. It will cost $132,000. No concrete work will be done during freezing weather."
  • Flood Control Dike - Sunderland MA
    In response to heavy flooding after a severe storm in 1936, Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) labor—under the direction of U.S. Army engineers—constructed dikes along the Connecticut River in many Massachusetts communities, including Sunderland. The exact status and locations of these dikes is presently unknown to Living New Deal.
  • Flood Control Dike - West Springfield MA
    In response to heavy flooding after a severe storm in 1936, Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) labor—under the direction of U.S. Army engineers—constructed dikes along the Connecticut River in many Massachusetts communities, including West Springfield. A WPA Bulletin refers to this dike; "Another reason for the home building drive in this section is the flood-prevention sea-wall atop the dike on Riverdale Street which was built by the War Department with WPA labor."
  • Flood Recovery - Parkersburg WV
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) carried out flood recovery work after the floods in Parkersburg in the spring of 1937. The WPA provided 700 workers (200 of which were National Youth Administration workers) and $ 31,000. The WPA crews assisted with evacuation efforts and the protection and recovery of property.
  • Flood Relief - Hartford CT
    The WPA was involved in flood repair and relief multiple times in the Connecticut region, including in 1936 and 1938. "The disastrous storm and flood of March 1936 led W.P.A. officials to turn their efforts wherever possible to assistance, relief and rehabilitation programs. The Writers' Project assigned many of its people to collecting information to document the story of the disaster, of people's reactions to it, and of the rehabilitation work. In Hartford a special effort was made, at the Mayor's request, to prepare a history of the flood, but it appears never to have been completed."   (www.cslib.org) "W.P.A. money and labor...
  • Floyd River - Sioux City IA
    The WPA Floyd River Project involved paving the channel of the river as it passed through the stockyards. The stockyards provided thousands of jobs; they were a very strong economic force in Sioux City and the surrounding agricultural industry. The purpose of providing a stable channel through that area was the prevention of river course change and erosion of the land the yards were built on. (The river had a history of doing this.) The channel is no longer in use since a major Floyd River flood changed the course of the channel yet again.
  • Fort Lewis College, Old Fort Lewis Campus - Hesperus CO
    The main campus of Fort Lewis College was moved to Durango, Colorado in 1956, but before then it was located at this site, 16 miles southwest of Durango on what was originally a military site, then a boarding school for Native Americans, then a high school, then a two-year college. Since the 1950s, this has been the site of the San Juan Basin Research Center and is currently connected to Fort Lewis College once more as an auxiliary campus used for agricultural research among other purposes. During the 1930s, New Deal programs contributed important resources to the campus: "Dean Bader faced...
  • Fort Monmouth (former) Development - NJ
    The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted millions of dollars (not even adjusted for inflation) of improvement and development work at Fort Monmouth in New Jersey. No aspects of the installation were left untouched: improvement and construction work involved developing "an auxiliary flying field," roads, sidewalks, electrical, heading, plumbing and sewer systems, and erosion control. All manners of facilities were built, refurbished, improved, or expanded. A captioned image in "The Dawn," a WPA publication, states that conducted "extensive repair work" at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey ca. 1936. Here is one typical project description, Official Project #765‐22‐2‐14: Improve buildings, including general overhauling of plumbing, heating, and...
  • Fort Snelling - St. Paul MN
    The fort dates back the early nineteenth century, when it was used to “promote and protext the interests of the United States in the region’s fur trade” (historicfortsnelling.org). Between 1938 and 1940, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) performed structural renovation and historic restoration work at this site, including sidewalks, sewers, porches, and garages. National Park Service: "Fort Snelling benefited from New Deal programs such as the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The programs provided funding for a general reconditioning of the fort, including landscaping and infrastructure. Workers graded and resurfaced existing roads, built new sidewalks and curbs and...
  • Friant Dam - Friant CA
    The Friant Dam is one of three major dams in the giant Central Valley Project in Northern California, along with Shasta and Folsom, built by the federal Bureau of Reclamation. Initial funding for the CVP came through the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. Friant was aided by funds from the Public Works Administratin (PWA).  The concrete dam, which impounds the San Joaquin River, is 320 feet high and 3,500 feet long at the crest.  The reservoir, Millerton Lake, holds about one-half million acre-feet of water at capacity. The chief purpose of the dam is irrigation water supply.  Water from Millerton Reservoir is shipped...
  • Garfield Park Reservation - Garfield Heights OH
    "Extensive improvements to the park in the 1930s included WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION-funded construction of a colonnaded boathouse, footbridges, and retaining walls along the lower lake, all made from locally quarried stone."
  • Geysers Road Culvert - Cloverdale CA
    A culvert/rock chute on Geyser Road (east of Cloverdale California, Sonoma County) - "WPA 1940" inscribed on head walls on both sides of road.
  • Ginn Field-Area Development - Winchester MA
    Winchester.us: "Ginn Field was laid out as a playground and three tennis courts were built. The other main project at that time was grading the field, accomplished by the WPA in 1938-40. The work of improving the field also included continuing the road from Manchester Field, building a road leading out to Bacon Street and creating a walk leading from tennis court to train station at Wedgemere, building an 800-foot-long stone retaining wall, and installing 360 feet of drain pipe at the field and more drains in 1942 to carry off water which made roadway impassable in rainy weather."
  • Golden Gardens Park Improvements - Seattle WA
    The Seattle Park Department utilized funds and labor from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to complete a series of improvement projects at Golden Gardens Park. Much of the work aimed at stabilizing the steep hillsides in the eastern section of the park. Between 1935 and 1936, WPA workers excavated more than 7500 cubic yards of earth from a landslide-prone area along Golden Gardens Drive and used it to fill in a low area north of the park bathhouse, adding two acres of usable beachfront to the park. During this period, workers also cleared timber and removed tree stumps throughout the eastern...
  • Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge Improvements - New Vernon NJ
    New Jersey's Skylands Visitor website writes: "During the 1920s the Army Corps of Engineers proposed the first of several flood control plans. The Works Projects Administration (WPA) followed in the 1930's constructing drainage ditches and straightening and deepening the channel of Black Brook, which flows through the Great Swamp."
  • Hackensack Meadowlands - Carlstadt NJ
    The Civil Works Administration (CWA) developed what is now the Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area in Carlstadt, New Jersey. NYTimes: "The Federal Government is cooperating in the important mosquito extermination program in the Hackensack meadows where a grant of $93,000 is giving work to 600 men. By the construction of dikes and tide gates large swamp areas are being drained and a considerable portion of land is being reclaimed."
  • Hamlin Beach State Park - Hamlin NY
    "HAMLIN BEACH PARK is one of the largest county parks of Monroe. It has an area of 600 acres and includes a mile and a quarter of lake frontage with an excellent bathing beach. Extensive road building and other improvements are in progress, carried on by the Civilian Conservation Corps, which maintains a camp near the park. This project includes the construction of a concrete sea wall and promenade along the entire lake front, six long stone and concrete jetties to hold sand for bathing beaches, 3 miles of macadam and 2 miles of hard-surfaced roads, 2 miles of concrete...
  • Hammond Pond Reservation Improvements - Newton MA
    Description of a project undertaken by the W.P.A. in 1937: "Hammond Pond Parkway; work was begun in November on a project which provides for the improvement of an area between the parkway and Hammond Pond in Newton. The work includes laying 300 linear feet of 24-inch drain pipe, filling a low area with about 12,000 cubic yards of gravel borrow, spreading about 3,000 cubic yards of loam, grading and seeding and thinning and grubbing 20,000 square yards of underbrush. Most of this work will also be done during 1938."
  • Hanes Park - Winston-Salem NC
    "The Works Progress Administration, an agency of the Federal Government, adopted as one of its projects the improvement of Hanes Park, which is a public park and playground owned by the city of Winston-Salem. Within the park is located an elementary school, the high school gymnasium, baseball diamond, a football field, a race track, bridges and walks, and other park improvements. It is used to a large extent as a playground connected with the elementary school and the Richard J. Reynolds High School. The W. P. A. project provided for improvements to the tennis courts and race track, three bridges,...
  • Hard Labor Creek State Park - Rutledge GA
    An onsite marker commemorates the extensive work of the CCC at this site, reading in part: "This park was built in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a New Deal program sponsored by President Roosevelt. It was administered as a division of the U.S. Army to reclaim unusable farm land, create recreational areas, and teach young men a skill or trade. Enlistees of the CCC were paid about $30 for a six-month enlistment, $25 of which was automatically sent to the enlistee’s family. There were two CCC camps housed at the Park. The first camp, District “B” Company 450 Ga. SP-8,...
  • Hazle Street Retaining Wall - Wilkes-Barre PA
    "WPA’s legacy is visible today in those and many other ways. Among projects in Wilkes-Barre were the retaining walls along North Main Street and Hazle Avenue ..." The exact location of the along Hazle Street of the wall is unknown to Living New Deal.
  • High Plains Grasslands Research Station Improvements - Cheyenne WY
    The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) worked to improve what is now the U.S. Department of Agriculture's High Plains Grasslands Research Station (then Cheyenne Horticultural Field Station), located northwest of Cheyenne, Wyoming. USDA.gov: "1935 – Many inprovements were made to the station; the main road was oiled from the entrance to the buildings. Civilian Conservation Corps camp of 200 men opened on station. They constructed roads, 2 miles of concrete lined ditches, irrigation system, planted thousands of trees and shrubs. They picked up hundreds of tons of stones from the experimental plots. And manure collected from nearby ranches was hauled in and spread over...
  • High Street Walls - Jamestown RI
    "Early projects proposed by the town and paid for by the WPA included ... stone walls along High Street." Stone walls can be seen on the south site of High Street, in front of a couple of properties between Wacott Ave. and Baldwin Ct.
  • Honey Creek & Menominee Parkways - Wauwatosa WI
    "Improved 225 acres of the parkway from North Avenue to Church Street, planted 10,000 shrubs and trees, built 7 bridges and constructed 5 miles of roads. Erected 2 miles of retaining wall along the Menomonee River to halt erosion. Constructed an overhead for the Rapid Transit over the parkway."
  • Hoosic River Retaining Wall - North Adams MA
    Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) conducted the following work in North Adams, Massachusetts. WPA Bulletin: On Sperry Avenue between Elm and Lincoln Streets, North Adams, WPA has strengthened the bank of the Hoosac River with an 80-foot long and 11-foot deep retaining stone wall. Public and private property will be benefited by this reconstruction.
  • Hoover Dam - Boulder City NV
    Hoover Dam, originally called "Boulder Dam", is the anchor of the entire Colorado River water storage and management system.  It lies in Black Canyon (not Boulder Canyon) at the southern tip of Nevada, on the Arizona border, and creates the massive Lake Meade reservoir, the largest in the United States.  It was the first high-arch concrete dam in history, becoming the model for thousands of dams built round the world.  It was constructed under the US Bureau of Reclamation by a joint venture of 8 construction companies (called "The Six Companies"), led by Henry Kaiser and including Bechtel Corporation, Utah...
  • Imperial Dam and All-American Canal Project - CA
    Imperial Dam was built by the Bureau of Reclamation during the New Deal as a feature of the Boulder Canyon Project, along with Hoover Dam and Parker Dam, on the lower Colorado River.  It lies 17 miles above Yuma, Arizona. It is the diversion structure for the All-American Canal, which serves the Imperial Valley and Coachella Valley in Southern California and for the Gila Project in Arizona. The dam is 3500 feet along the crest and 41 feet high at overflow point. The All American Canal headworks has a maximum diversion capacity of 15,000 cfs. The length of the All American canal – so-named because it did not...
  • Independence Low Dam - Independence IA
    Just before the phase-out of the CWA began in January 1934, the City of Independence applied successfully for CWA funds to build a trio of small dams across the Wapsipinicon at Independence downstream from the city’s mill dam. On further investigation by the county engineer, the number of dams was reduced to two, and later to one. This dam, now known as the Independence Low Dam, spans the river at the northwest corner of Oak Grove Cemetery. The original plans called for multiple three-foot dams constructed of rock and other materials, but eventually a single four-foot dam was constructed of...
  • Island Creek Flood Control - Omar WV
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) completed flood control work on Island Creek in Omar, Logan County. The work performed by WPA crews included building stone walls, widening, straightening, and deepening the channel, and clearing debris. The flood control sought to prevent property damage caused by the overflowing of the creek.
  • Island Park Development - Green River WY
    The Civil Works Administration (CWA) worked to improve the conditions at Island Park in Green River, Wyoming. Cassity: "In Green River, Island Park was leveled with traditional cut and fill methods to raise the low spots so that flood water from Green River would no longer stand, and this was followed by installing lawn, roads, and paths."
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