- City:
- Santa Barbara, CA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded the construction of a new water supply reservoir and filtration plant for Santa Barbara. Both facilities still exist and still function.
Short and Stanley-Brown described the project in 1939:
“This project consisted of the concrete reservoir with a capacity of 50,000,000 gallons and the filtration plant with a capacity of 8,000,000 gallons per day from which the filtered and softened water is pumped into the distributing system of Santa Barbara. Monolithic concrete is particularly well done in California and this plant is no exception.”
Source notes
Short, C. W. and R. Stanley-Brown (1939) Public Buildings: Architecture Under the Public Works Administration, 1933 to 1939. United States Government Printing Office: Washington, DC.
Site originally submitted by Shaina Potts on July 13, 2010.
Site Details
| Federal Cost | Total Cost |
|---|---|
| $380,613.00 | $380,613.00 |
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