- City:
- Portland, ME
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
Description
Four major sewer projects were started in Downtown Portland by the WPA. New sewer lines were built along Baxter Blvd and Washington Ave. Danforth St. and Fore St. sewer lines were rebuilt.
Source notes
Bauman, John F. "Gateway to Vacationland: The Making of Portland, Maine.
Film of WPA sewer line work, Portland, ca. 1940. Contributed by Maine Historical Society, Maine Memory Network: https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/23513
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on March 23, 2014.
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