- City:
- Crowell, TX
- Site Type:
- Water Supply, Infrastructure and Utilities, Dams
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1936
Description
A Works Progress Administration (WPA) dam enlargement project was undertaken to increase the municipal water reserves of Crowell, Texas in an effort completed in 1936.
“The capacity of [Crowell’s] city lake was more than doubled by a WPA project completed last spring. The dam of the lake was raised three and one-half feet and the spillway three feet.”
Source notes
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Sept. 27, 1936 (pg. 43): https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/636952219/
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 24, 2022.
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