- City:
- Falls Church, VA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Federal Works Agency (FWA)
- Started:
- 1943
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
The FWA constructed two sewers as part of the work done in Fairfax County. From the Washington Post: “The biggest sewer job in this area is the 20-mile Fairfax County trunk sewer costing approximately $1,500,000. There are two branches of the sewer. One starts at Lee Highway near Falls Church, and the other at Lee Highway a few miles beyond Falls Church which follows Tripps and Holmes Runs joining below the Barcroft Reservoir of the Alexandria Water Company. From that point the sewer follows Holmes and Cameron Runs to the lower part of the county and discharges into the Potomac River and Cameron Run.”
Source notes
“A struggle for home front morale,” Washington Post, July 18, 1943, p. B5Site originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on April 3, 2015.
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