Cheesecake Brook Flood Control – Newton MA

City:
Newton, MA

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Flood and Erosion Control

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Description

A Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) Bulletin details the following project undertaken by the W.P.A. in Newton:

“Flood damage by two brooks which formerly went on rampages during spring floods has been eliminated by construction of masonry walls for a mile and a quarter in Cheesecake brook and for 830 feet in Laundry brook.”

Source notes

Works Progress Bulletin, Massachusetts: Aug. 16, 1937 (pg. 4). https://archive.org/details/worksprogressbul3637unit https://blogs.wickedlocal.com/newton/2008/04/03/cheesecake-brook-improvements-look-awesome

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 18, 2017.

Location Info


Cheesecake Brook
Newton, MA

Coordinates: 42.352036, -71.216696

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