- City:
- Milwaukee, WI
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Completed:
- 1938
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
“The largest Public Works Administration (PWA) project in Wisconsin was construction of the City of Milwaukee Linwood water filtration plant, which employed 1,700 men for a year.”
(www4.uwm.edu)
“Due to increasing pollution of Lake Michigan the amount of chemicals required to make the water safe for use had become excessive. The city constructed this new plant on ‘made land’ on the shore and it has a capacity of 200,000,000 gallons daily. It consists of a low-lift pumping station, mixing and coagulating basins, filters, a clear-water reservoir, and appurtenances. The buildings are fireproof, the exterior walls being of quarry-faced random ashlar native stone.
The project was completed in January 1938 at an estimated construction cost of $4,642,135 and a project cost of $5,130,000.”
(Short and Brown)
Note that the above image mislabels Lake Michigan as “Mississippi River.”
Source notes
"Learning from the WPA: Work Relief Programs in Milwaukee County," UW-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute C.W. Short and R. Stanley-Brown. Public Buildings: A Survey of Architecture of Projects Constructed by Federal and Other Governmental Bodies Between the Years 1933 and 1939 with the Assistance of the Public Works Administration. (1939). Photo at: https://tangsphoto.photoshelter.com/image/I0000tpMv7hA2eE0Site Details
| Total Cost |
|---|
| $5,130,000.00 |
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Chris Hillard
The image above is not the Linwood Treatment plant. The buildings are different and the body of water is labeled as the Mississippi River. Milwaukee (and the plant) are on Lake Michigan.