- State:
- CA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Between 1938 and 1939, the WPA lined seven miles of the Fowler Canals with concrete.
Source notes
Fresno Bee, August 1940 in "Scrapbooks of clippings related to WPA projects in Fresno, Kern, King, Madera, and Tulare Counties," gift of Mrs. David T. Holmes, Vacaville, 1962. (Scrapbook can be found in the California State Library in Sacramento).Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on August 26, 2011.
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