- City:
- Owego, NY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Flood and Erosion Control
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) employed fifteen laborers to conduct flood control work for two thousand feet along Owego Creek. The activity involved timber cribbing and diking “to protect the banks washed out in the July and March floods.” The WPA photo above shows WPA workers filling in back of the dike “…with stone and shale rock” (WPA).
Source notes
National Archives and Records Administration, Negative 7688-DContribute to this Site
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