- City:
- Adjuntas, PUERTO-RICO
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Dams
- New Deal Agencies:
- Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration (PRRA), Territories & Reservations
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1942
Description
Garzas Dam, a hydroelectric generation facility, was constructed as part of a large rural electrification plan undertaken by the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration, a New Deal agency. Construction began in 1935 and it included “the reservoir, hydroelectric plant, and three minor river diversions.”
Source notes
"Annual Report of the Department of the Interior"; U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 (pg. 334)
https://books.google.com/books?id=s8MgAQAAIAAJ
"Annual Report of the Department of the Interior"; U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 (pg. 368)
https://books.google.com/books?id=7cUgAQAAIAAJ
| Burrows, Geoff G., "The New Deal in Puerto Rico: Public Works, Public Health, and the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration, 1935-1955," 2014 dissertation. CUNY Academic Works. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/315, pp. 198-199. |
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 19, 2017.
Additional contributions by Brent McKee.
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