- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
In 1938-1939, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) installed a new Water Main on East Capitol Street, between 59th and 61st Streets NW.
The Annual Report of the DC government provide details: “Undertaken with W. P.A. labor, a 20-inch main, totaling 685 linear feet, was laid in East Capitol Street between Fifty-ninth and Sixty first Streets, to serve new houses under construction. This main will eventually be extended to intercept a proposed 30-inch main in Minnesota Avenue and will extend from Minnesota Avenue and East Capitol Street to the east most extremity of the Anacostia first high service, completing a major trunk main through this area.”
The main may still be in place, but would be invisible to everyone but the staff at DC Water and Sewer Authority.
Source notes
Report of the Government of the District of Columbia, For the Year Ended June 30, 1939, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940, p. 99.
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on February 26, 2020.
Additional contributions by Richard A Walker.
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