- City:
- Eureka, CA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1937
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded part or all of a major 6-mile long pipeline for the Mad River Water Supply Project. The pipeline contract was awarded the United Concrete Pipe Corporation of Los Angeles in 1937 for $775,695.]
According to the Eureka Times-Standard (Oct 7, 2016), ” a 20-year project to build a parallel pipeline was being completed as a failsafe in case the old New Deal era pipes failed. The system goes from a pumping station on the Mad River north of Arcata to the filtration system in Eureka’s water treatment facility on W and Hemlock St. The survey company says the parallel pipeline is something they’ve been working on for the last 7 years to complete the 6 mile pipeline.”
Source notes
"Eureka CA - Awarded (with PWA approval) to United Concrete Pipe Corporation, 85th St. and Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, $774,695, by City Clerk, Eureka, for construction of a pipeline unit of the Mad River Water Supply Project (PWA Project 6668-2)." Western Construction News, July 1937
http://www.times-standard.com/article/NJ/20161007/NEWS/161009837
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on May 17, 2017.
Site Details
| Total Cost | Site #s |
|---|---|
| $774,695 | (PWA Project 6668-2) |
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