- City:
- Oak Ridge, LA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Designers:
- A. C. Volk, Engineer
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) undertook an extension of the water system in Oak Ridge, Louisiana during the Great Depression. Public utilities projects, including such water supply and purification systems, accounted for ten percent of all WPA spending during the period. The Oak Ridge water system project in the Morehouse parish employed 37 men.
Source notes
Morehouse WPA projects begun. (November 21, 1935). Monroe News Star, p. 12. Works Progress Administration. Projects of the Works Progress Administration (1936) . Web (12-7-2014). (https://www.gjenvick.com/WPA-WorksProgressAdministration/ProgressReports/1936-10-15/B04-SewerSystems-OtherUtilityProjects.html)Site originally submitted by Susan C. Allen on December 7, 2014.
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