- City:
- Poughkeepsie, NY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1940
Description
The federal Work Projects Administration (WPA) constructed a half-mile storm sewer along Grand Avenue in Poughkeepsie, New York, from north of Fulton Ave. to a creek south of College Ave.
Source notes
"Storm Sewer Work Begins;" The Poughkeepsie Star-Enterprise, Nov. 29, 1940 (page 13).Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 26, 2015.
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