- Sanitary Sewers - Regent NDA sanitary sewer construction project in Regent, North Dakota was undertaken during the Great Depression with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $8,590 grant for the project, whose total cost was $20,585. Work occurred between April and June 1937. (PWA Docket No. ND W1130)
- Sanitary Sewers - Richardton NDA sanitary sewer construction project in Richardton, North Dakota was undertaken during the Great Depression with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $17,955 grant for the project, whose total cost was $39,881. Work occurred between January and July 1937. (PWA Docket No. ND W1117)
- Sanitary Sewers - Springfield OHA massive sewer construction project was undertaken in Springfield, Ohio with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $671,864 loan and $323,479 grant toward the $1,234,262 total cost of the project. Work occurred between December 1933 and July 1936. (PWA Docket No. OH 766)
- Sanitary Sewers - Steele NDA sanitary sewer construction project in Steele, North Dakota was undertaken during the Great Depression with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $9,975 grant for the project, whose total cost was $22,676. Work occurred between October and December 1936. (PWA Docket No. ND W1017)
- Sanitary Sewers - Valley NEA sanitary sewer construction project in Valley, Nebraska was undertaken with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $17,000 grant for the project, whose total cost was $61,694. PWA Docket No. 8728
- Sanitary Sewers - Watford City NDA sanitary sewer construction project in Watford City, North Dakota was undertaken during the Great Depression with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $14,850 grant for the project, whose total cost was $33,073. Work occurred between April and August 1937. (PWA Docket No. ND W1134)
- Sanitary Sewers - Waynesville NCA major sanitary sewer construction project in Waynesville, North Carolina was enabled by federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds during the Great Depression. The PWA provided a $122,500 loan and $100,227 outright grant to the community for the project, whose total cost was $215,600. Construction occurred between November 1938 and August 1939. PWA Docket No. NC 6201.
- Sanitary Sewers - West Hartford CTA large sanitary sewer construction project, which included what was then known as the Center Trunk Sewer, was enabled during the 1930s in West Hartford, Connecticut by the provision of federal Public Works Administration (P.W.A) funds. PWA Project No. CT W 1275
- Sanitary Sewers - Williams AZA sanitary sewer construction project in Williams, Arizona was undertaken during the Great Depression with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $50,000 loan and $34,364 grant; the total cost of the project was $83,792. Work occurred between December 1936 and September 1937. (PWA Docket No. AZ W1036)
- Sanitary Sewers - Wink TXA sanitary sewer construction project in Wink, Texas was undertaken in 1938 with Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) funds. The P.W.A. provided a $28,000 loan and $22,581 grant for the project, whose total cost was $50,180. P.W.A. Docket No. TX 1135 A project in which the PWA allocated $31,000 in loans and $25,363 in grant money toward the construction of "a waterworks system adequate for the growing needs of this growing oil city was never ultimately undertaken.
- Sanitary Sewers - Yakima WA"The city of Yakima has added $4,076 to the WPA grant of $16,986 for the construction of sanitary sewers and manholes."
- Sanitary Sewers - Yonkers NYMultiple sanitary sewer construction projects in Yonkers, New York were undertaken with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. For one such project the PWA supplied a $550,000 loan and $153,520 grant; the total cost of the project was $727,694. (Figures not accounting for inflation.) Work occurred between March 1935 and November 1936. (PWA Docket No. NY 2223, 1080)
- Sanitary Sewers, Ram's Horn Creek - St. Albans WVThe Works Progress Administration built sanitary sewers in St. Albans. The work consisted of the “construction of 42-inch storm and sanitary sewers, Ram's Horn creek.”
- Santa Cruz County Sewer Systems - Santa Cruz CAResearch done by local librarians has uncovered that the WPA constructed: sewer main, laying sewer pipe and construct manholes (1935) drainage system for flood control (1936) sanitation-the elimination of insanitary devices by the construction of sanitary privies in rural areas and suburban territories where sewer systems are impracticable (1937) water mains and sanitary sewers in North Branciforte Avenue, Escalona Drive and Center Street... (1937) sanitary sewers, with manholes and other necessary appurtenances, in and near Soquel... (1938) sanitary sewers, with manholes and other necessary appurtenances, in and near Watsonville... (1938)
- Sarsfield Playground - Brooklyn NYOn July 9, 1941, the Department of Parks announced the completion of what is now the Eugene Sarsfield Playground in Brooklyn. The press release announcing the park's opening reported: "To provide a flat play surface it was necessary to construct a concrete retaining wall of variable height along the north property line with a short stairway access provided from Avenue "M". An 8' chain link boundary fence has been placed on top of this wall and along the entire property line. A second entrance leads from Flatlands Avenue near the corner of Ryder Street. Seventeen 2½-3" diameter Norway maples have been planted...
- Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Randolph Streets NE Sewers - Washington DCIn 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.
- Sewage Disposal Plant - Denver COThe Public Works Administration funded the construction of a sewage disposal plant in Denver, CO.
- Sewage Disposal Plant - El Monte CAThe 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 TXThe 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 NEIn 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 NYThe 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 NJThe 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 CTThe 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 CTThe 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 WIAccording 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 RIProvidence'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 NYThe 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 DEThe PWA helped construct sewers and a treatment plant in Rehoboth Beach.
- Sewer - Honaker VAThe Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)'s "constructive project work" in Russell County, Virginia included a sewer project.
- Sewer Construction - Allenstown NHThe 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 IDWPA crews conducted work on the sewer system in Moscow.
- Sewer Construction - Portland METhe 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 KSA 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 MTThe WPA allocated $2,504 in 1938 for the extension of the municipal sewer system in Circle, Montana.
- Sewer Extension - Taylor TXThe WPA worked to extend the sewer system in the town of Taylor, Texas during the mid-1930s.
- Sewer Extensions - Medicine Bow WYThe 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 KYThe 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