- City:
- Brentwood, CA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration created irrigation canals in Brentwood, CA. “This work included grading and cement lining of the Irrigation Ditches and the manufacturing and installation of Cement Concrete Pipe.”
Source notes
WPA job cards, Fresno Public Library, San Joaquin Valley Heritage & Genealogy Center.
WPA Project No. 65-3-1637, App. Date 10-16-35, $16,143.
WPA Project No. 65-3-1637, App. Date 2-3-36, $5,201.
WPA Project No. 165-3-5027, App. Date 12-11-36, Average Employed 199, $51,628, Total Funds $70,063.
WPA Project No. 465-03-2-236, App. Date Nov 26 1937, $20,595, Total Funds $31,382, Average Employed 83, Federal Man-hours 34,384.
Site originally submitted by The Living New Deal on August 27, 2010.
Additional contributions by Andrew Laverdiere.
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