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  • Seco St. Bridge - Pasadena CA
    This reinforced concrete bridge over the Arroyo Seco flood control channel was built by the WPA in 1939.
  • Second Street Bridge - Clarksdale MS
    The Second Street bridge over the Sunflower River was constructed in 1936 as Public Works Administration project W1051. Pigford Brothers of Meridian, Mississippi constructed the bridge. The bridge was a modern concrete bridge, 500 feet long, 30 feet wide, and with a 5-foot sidewalks on each side of the roadway. It had "more architectural detailing" (Sunflower Bridge to be completed August 15, p. 1) than the Tenth Street Bridge, also constructed by Pigford a few years earlier. Twelve 500-candlepower electric lamps lighted the bridge. The project employed 50 local men. Clarksdale City Engineer Walter Bobo and Coahoma County Engineer Ben...
  • Seine Bay Pier - Culebra PR
    Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration work relief division efforts included "a concrete landing pier ... at Sein Bay, Culebra, where naval vessels and marines assemble for winter maneuvers." The exact location and status of the project are unknown to Living New Deal. Seine Bay is located "just to the eastward of Scorpion Point" (Navigation, pg. 383), which itself is at the southeast side of Target Bay (Results, pg. 248).
  • Seminoe Dam - Leo WY
    Casper-Alcova Project, Wyoming - The Casper-Alcova Project is being developed initially to irrigate 35,000 acres of land in the vicinity of Casper Wyoming. The more important features are the Seminoe Dam and power plant, the Alcova Dam and the canal system. The revenues from the power plant are expected to repay a large portion of the cost of the project. the Seminoe Dam is of the concrete arch type, with a volume of about 161,000 cubic yards and a maximum height of 161 feet. The storage capacity of the reservoir will be 1,000,000 acre feet. The Alcova Dam on the...
  • Seminoe Road - Leo WY
    Civil Works Administration projects in Wyoming included construction of what Living New Deal believes to be Seminoe Road: "In Carbon County one project required more than three thousand pounds of dynamite, but the road was essential, and in this case it was a new road; it was the road into the Seminoe district, the only road leading to the PWA worksite of the dam under construction." Living New Deal believes this to be the road known as Seminoe Road.
  • Sepulveda Dam – Van Nuys CA
    The Sepulveda Dam in Van Nuys, California (in the San Fernando Valley) was constructed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1941 as part of an enormous flood-control project on the Los Angeles River, following the latest major flood on the river in January 1934.  The work was done under the auspices of a general flood risk management plan and contract between the Army Corps of Engineers, the Los Angeles County Flood Control District (LACFCD), and the WPA to deal with flooding on the three main rivers in Los Angeles County. According to the Army Corps of Engineers, "The flood of...
  • Sequoyah's Cabin - Sallisaw OK
    The New York Times reported in 1937: "Tourists have begun to visit the memorial in Sequoyah County, Okla., built by WPA under the sponsorship of the Oklahoma Historical Society ... The stone building erected by WPA encloses the log cabin in which Sequoyah lived 100 years ago, and a new road laid by WPA makes the memorial accessible to motorists." The cornerstone for the project was laid on June 12, 1936. The WPA also constructed a stone wall and the base to a water tower at the site.
  • Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Randolph Streets NE Sewers - Washington DC
    In 1940, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) installed sewers at 17th, 18th, and Randolph streets in the district's northeast quadrant. This work was part of a massive New Deal era program for Washington of sewer construction, separation of sanitary and storm sewers, and sewage treatment at the new Blue Plains facility in order to clean up the badly polluted Anacostia and Potomac Rivers.
  • Seventh Avenue (former) Paving - New York NY
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) assisted in the paving of what was then Seventh Avenue (now Frederick Douglass Blvd.) from 145th St. to 152nd St.
  • Sewage Disposal Plant - Denver CO
    The Public Works Administration funded the construction of a sewage disposal plant in Denver, CO.
  • Sewage Disposal Plant - El Monte CA
    The Public Works Administration (PWA) constructed a sewage disposal plant in El Monte, CA. In 1935, the Department of the Interior’s newly created Department of Subsistence Homesteads (DSH) established a community of 100 “small farms” and “rurban homes” in El Monte. "As a result, so much interest was aroused in the development of subsistence farms that approximately 2,000 acres of farmland was subdivided and settled by residents of the metropolitan area of Los Angeles, who built their homes along the banks of the Rio Hondo River which was badly polluted by the existing El Monte sewage system. To overcome this condition,...
  • Sewage Disposal Plant - Elgin TX
    The Works Progress Administration built a sewage disposal plant for Elgin, Texas in 1939 under project number 665-66-2-206. It was the first municipal plant to use the Hays process for sewage treatment.
  • Sewage Disposal Plant - Hartington NE
    In February 1935, the Hartington city council passed an ordinance to issue $16,000.00 in bonds to pay its share of the cost of the city sewage disposal plant which was completed in the fall of 1934 by the PWA. The bonds, carrying four percent interest and running for twenty years, were used to take up city warrants to pay for the plant. The PWA's share of the cost amounted to about $4,000.00, and completed the retirement of the warrants. The total cost of the sewage plant was $19,047.15, of which the PWA paid thirty percent. The exact location and current status...
  • Sewage Disposal Plant (former) - Freeport NY
    The construction of Freeport, New York's old sewage Treatment Plant was aided by the provision of funds by federal Public Works Administration during the 1930s (PWA Docket No. NY 7138). The plant was located at the south end of Albany Avenue in Freeport. A new sewage plant has been constructed a few miles west; however, at least some of the buildings of the old sewage plant still stand, and the site is now occupied by the Freeport Water Department. Engineers and designers included Baldwin & Cornelius Co., Village Engineers of Freeport; and Clyde Potts of New York served as a consulting engineer.
  • Sewage Disposal Plant Modernization - Bordentown NJ
    The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked to modernize Bordentown, New Jersey's sewage disposal plant in 1936. The plant had "been in need of drastic changes for years the city ha not been financially able to stand the cost." The plant discharges into Black Creek, which forms the southern boundary of Bordentown Township.
  • Sewage Plant - Hartford CT
    The Public Works Administration funded the construction of a sewage plant in Hartford CT. Pictured are the digesting and storage tanks. The exact location and condition of this facility are unknown to the Living New Deal.
  • Sewage Plant - Torrington CT
    The Public Works Administration funded the construction of a sewage plant in Torrington, Litchfield CT, circa 1936. The exact location and condition of this facility are unknown to the Living New Deal.
  • Sewage Plant and Storm Water System - Hudson WI
    According to the testimony of Wendall Peterson, City Attorney of Hudson during hearings in Congress over a toll bridge in 1941, the Works Progress Administration was involved in constructing a large storm sewer 4 or 5 blocks long. The City Attorney of Hudson described how the Wisconsin State Board of Health was forcing them to build a Sewage Disposal plant that was being lined up next year. The previous speaker, Mayor James Newton mentions the sewage plant, how the state was forcing them to build it, and that the estimated cost was $65,000. See source below.
  • Sewage Plant Improvements - Morristown NJ
    “The WPA renovated and reconditioned sewage disposal plant here was turned over to City officials yesterday afternoon in ceremonies sponsored at the plant site. The project…included the cleaning of two large beds, totaling more than 2 acres. During the past seven months more than 1,250 tons of stone were taken up, cleaned and replaced, and augmented by 500 tons of new filter stone; 250 tons of sand were dug up, and replaced with 2,850 tons, of which 850 tons were furnished by WPA, and 2,000 tons by Morristown. Fifteen workers were employed on the project since it began….” (July 31,...
  • Sewage Treatment and Disposal Plant - San Francisco CA
    'The Richmond-Sunset sewage-treatment plant is in the Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. The entire project, known as 'the sanitary program for the city and county of San Francisco,' consisted of reconditioning and rebuilding existing sewer lines together with the erection of necessary pumping stations and sewage-disposal plants. The old system consisted of a network of sewers throughout the thickly populated section of the city which discharged raw sewage directly into the San Francisco Bay. With the construction of this and two other plants, the contamination of the bay waters was eliminated. The process consists of screening, sedimentation, sludge digestion, sludge...
  • Sewage Treatment Facility - Providence RI
    Providence's sewage treatment facility was a PWA project. Facilities have expanded beyond the original PWA-constructed plant, but it appears to remain at the site.
  • Sewage Treatment Plant - Pittsford NY
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) photo pictured here shows the Pittsford Sewage Treatment Plant in Monroe County, New York. The photo is dated to 1938. More information is needed to determine the current status and exact location of this project.
  • Sewage Treatment Plant - Rahway NJ
    'The sewage treatment plant... cares for the sewage from the south district of the settlement, and the process consists of primary sedimentation, aeration, secondary sedimentation, and chlorination. The project included also a main intercepting sewer. The character of the concrete structure is a departure in the design of a treatment plant.'
  • Sewage Treatment Plant - Rehoboth Beach DE
    The PWA helped construct sewers and a treatment plant in Rehoboth Beach.
  • Sewer - Honaker VA
    The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)'s "constructive project work" in Russell County, Virginia included a sewer project.
  • Sewer Construction - Allenstown NH
    The federal Work Projects Administration (WPA) put seven men to work ca. 1940 constructing sewers in Allenstown, New Hampshire. Sewer Construction — $1,462.76 Balance W.P.A. Project $60.06 $1,522.82 7 men employed
  • Sewer Construction - Moscow ID
    WPA crews conducted work on the sewer system in Moscow.
  • Sewer Construction - Portland ME
    The Civil Works Administration (CWA) built sewers on Johansen, Oakley, and Sherwood Streets in Portland, ME, in 1934. A photo courtesy of the Maine Memory Network depicts the sewer construction by CWA crews in 1934.
  • Sewer Development - Hutchinson KS
    A storm sewer development project in Hutchinson, Kansas was undertaken during the Great Depression with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA provided a grant of $29,093 toward the $99,675 total cost of the project. Construction occurred between July and October 1934. (PWA Docket No. KS 1902) Furthermore, the Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted the following sewer / water disposal-related work in Hutchinson in 1933-4: Storm sewer on Adams, from 17th to 18th St. Storm sewer on Adams, from Ave. E to F, and into river Clean drainage ditches in Grandview Drag and clean several miles of storm...
  • Sewer Extension - Circle MT
    The WPA allocated $2,504 in 1938 for the extension of the municipal sewer system in Circle, Montana.
  • Sewer Extension - Taylor TX
    The WPA worked to extend the sewer system in the town of Taylor, Texas during the mid-1930s.
  • Sewer Extensions - Medicine Bow WY
    The Civil Works Administration (CWA) extended the sewer system in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, the winter of 1933-34. We have no further details as to the what, when and where of the project.
  • Sewer Improvements - Ashland KY
    The federal Civil Works Administration (CWA) undertook two sewer improvement projects in Ashland, Kentucky: Boyd Co 11–25: Uncover and Repair Sanitary Sewer on Keys Creek in Ashland Boyd Co 11–3: Uncover and Repair Sewers Leading to Sewage Disposal Plant in Ashland
  • Sewer Improvements - Tacoma WA
    "Federal approval of Tacoma's city-wide WPA sewer improvement project providing employment for more than 560 men, was announced today by Don G. Abel, state WPA director. The WPA allotment accounts to $95,776 to which the city of Tacoma will add $13,208. Further allotments involving a total of $172,122. to which the city of Tacoma is adding $18,966 and which will employ more than 900 additional workers taken from relief rolls is awaiting Federal approval which is expected momentarily, Abel stated. The district in which the approved projects will begin as soon as conditions will permit are Garfield Park trunk sewer, East...
  • Sewer Line - Selma CA
    According to a March 8 1934 article in the Clovis Independent, out of $17,374 for 17 Civil Works Administration projects for Fresno County, $3,649.96 was spent "for a sewer distribution line in Selma."
  • Sewer Lines - Wahiawa HI
    The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded new construction or improvement work on sewer lines in Wahiawa on Oahu. The PWA grant amounted to $59,850, and the work was carried out in 1938. The project, listed as Docket No. TH-1076-F, was part of the PWA’s non-federal projects expenditure for the Territory of Hawaii for 1938-1939.
  • Sewer Outfall Extensions - Washington DC
    According to the Washington Post, $220,500 was allotted by the Public Works Administration (PWA) for an outfall sewer extension in 1933.   According to DC Water, there are 53 sewer outfalls in the District, so the location of the work cannot be known based on this source alone. This work was part of a massive New Deal era program to upgrade the sewers of Washington DC, separate sanitary and storm sewer systems, and install sewage treatment at Blue Plains.   The outfalls referred to here would today be storm sewers not sanitary sewers.
  • Sewer Plant Improvements - Farmington NH
    The 1936 Selectmens report mentions W.P.A. assistance to the town of Farmington: "With respect to Article 3 of the Warrant covering budget items 10 and 11-a, we suggest a small appropriation of $1350.00 to cover our 'Sponsor's Contribution' for the completion of the W. P. A. project for the reconstruction of the filtration system at the sewage disposal plant. The $670.02 thus far expended by the town on this project has come from a surplus in revenues other than taxes and other balances accruing during the year but we think it advisable to make this provision for its completion."
  • Sewer Projects - Dover-Foxcroft ME
    As part of the initial Civil Works Administration (CWA) jobs effort in Dover Foxcroft was the construction of 4 sewer lines on Fairview, Morton, Harrison Avenues and Pearl St. $12,618 was spent by the CWA and 90 men were put to work in the town in December on various public works.
  • Sewer Repair SW First & SW Sheridan (improved) - Portland OR
    During the hard winter months of 1933-1934, the Civil Works Administration (CWA) was a work relief program that employed Portlanders on a variety of needed projects. Sewer repair work was one such project category. These men are shown doing sewer repair in the Lair Hill neighborhood at SW First and SW Sheridan on January 30, 1934. The CWA served as a federal relief program from November 8, 1933 through March 31, 1934.  When the CWA began, Oregon anticipated being able to put 21,000 men back to work on small projects involving a large amount of hand labor. The projects were submitted...
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