Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Dams
Started: 1938
Completed: 1939
Quality of Information: Very Good
Marked:
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Description
Built 1938-39 under the Flood Control Act of 1936, following catastrophic local floods in 1935, and still in use. Federal cost was $1,910,000. C.C.C. built a camp nearby for the construction workers,
Source notes
Arkport Bicentennial 200th Anniversary: Then and Now, pp. 36, 37.
Arkport Dam NY (https://www.nab.usace.army.mil/portals/63/docs/FactSheets/FY15_Factsheets/NY-ArkportDam-OM.pdf), accessed October 2021.
Project originally submitted by Steuben County Historical Society Director on October 17, 2021.
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