Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Water supply
New Deal Agencies: Public Works Administration (PWA), Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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Description
"Through appropriations and an allotment of $188,000 from PWA funds the district undertook the work of rehabilitation. Carlsbad's perennial reservoir problems were alleviated in part by extensive work on McMillan and Avalon dams by the WPA."
-Ira Clark
Source notes
Clark, Ira G. Water in New Mexico: A History of its Management and Use. University of New Mexico Press, 1987. Pg. 251. "New Deal Sites in New Mexico," Atlas of Historic New Mexico Maps, New Mexico Humanities Council. <http://atlas.nmhum.org/atlas.php?gmap=42>
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