Franklin Street Storm Sewer – Hackettstown NJ

City:
Hackettstown, NJ

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Started:
1936

Description

“Hackettstown is receiving full value of Federal work relief money and is accomplishing a much needed improvement. …

WPA workers… are busy digging the ditches for the storm sewer down Franklin Street which will carry flood waters off High, Sharp, Cook, and Franklin Streets.”

Source notes

"WPA Does Credit to Hackettstown"; Washington (N.J.) Star, April 10, 1936.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 2, 2015.

Location Info

Franklin St.
Hackettstown, NJ

Coordinates: 40.855227, -74.828274

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