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McMillan Dam – Artesia NM

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Water supply
Agency: 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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Location Info

McMillan Dam
Artesia, NM 88210

Location notes:

Coordinates: 32.595115, -104.347180

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