Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and water disposal
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Started: 1936
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Description
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked to reconstruct a broken sewer line along and around Broadway in Passaic, New Jersey ca. 1936. The project would provide 150 men work for six months. Most of the cost of the work was borne by the federal government.
Source notes
"The Dawn," a New Jersey WPA publication; August 1936 issue, page 15. Found at the Jersey City Public Library's New Jersey Room.
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 10, 2015.
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