- City:
- Fortuna, CA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1940
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
Works Progress Administration (WPA) project cards in the National Archives indicate that WPA crews did extensive work on the city water supply system in Fortuna in 1937 and 1940. A new reservoir was proposed in 1935 and approved in 1936. The next round, in 1939-40, included laying of new and reclaimed water mains, installing hydrants and improving water treatment.
This work cannot be definitively confirmed, since water mains are undergr0und and hydrants have been replaced by modern fixtures. The reservoir on a hill north of downtown Fortuna does appear to be of the right age to be the one built by the WPA.
Source notes
WPA Project cards, National Archives
Site originally submitted by Richard A Walker on June 14, 2021.
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