- City:
- Molokai, HI
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Maritime: Harbors, Ports & Lighthouses
- New Deal Agencies:
- Army Corps of Engineers, Federal & Military Operations, Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA), National Recovery Administration (NRA)
- Started:
- 1933
- Completed:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Army Corps of Engineers, the Public Works Administration, and the National Industrial Recovery Administration funded and conducted improvement operations in the Kaunakakai Harbor on Molokai, between 1933 and 1934. The work consisted of the “dredging of a harbor basin about 1,500 feet long, 600 feet wide, and 23 feet deep at mean lower low water.” The estimated cost of the work in 1933 was $120,000. The estimated cost for annual maintenance was $5,000.
Source notes
War Department, Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1935, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936, pp. 8 and 1597-1598Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on June 22, 2017.
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