- City:
- West Sacramento, CA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Flood and Erosion Control
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1937
Description
WPA Job Card: WPA Project No. 65-3-4804, Approval Date 2-18-36, $7,711, “Sacramento River By-pass. Levee reconstruction. Move levees running across by-pass, the dirt to be scraped into the paralleling ditch from which it originated.” (Reclamation Bd.)
“WPA Project No. 6654, Yolo County, commenced operations on April 2nd [1937] since which time an average of 31 men have been employed on clearing brush and timber from levees of the Sacramento By-pass and poisoning squirrels.”
Source notes
WPA Job Cards, Fresno Public Library San Joaquin Valley Heritage & Genealogy Center.
May 1937 issue California Highway & Public Works magazine.
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on December 19, 2014.
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