- City:
- Bronx, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
Description
The WPA developed a “wholly new sewage system” for City Island, which had previously “depended on an antiquated system of individual street sewers, cesspools and septic tanks.”
Source notes
The New York Times: "SOMERVELL GIVES 5-YEAR WPA RECORD," Oct. 21, 1940 (pg. 19)
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