Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply
Started: 1934
Completed: 1934
Quality of Information: Moderate
Marked:
No
Site Survival: Unknown
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Description
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) lay a water main along Fourth Street SW in 1934. At the time, the street was known as 4 1/2 street.
This was at the beginning of an extensive program of building new water mains and sewers all across the District of Columbia by New Deal agencies.
Source notes
National Archives, Record Group 69, WPA Microfilm, District of Columbia, Box 969.
Project originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on May 25, 2013.
Additional contributions by Richard A Walker.
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