- City:
- Riverhead, NY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1936
Description
A sanitary sewer construction project in Riverhead, New York was undertaken during the Great Depression with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $64,517 grant; the total cost of the project was $146,887. Work occurred between February and October 1936.
After the project was originally approved Sayville’s Suffolk County News mistakenly reported: “… the WPA [sic] has granted the village of Riverhead the sum of $66,191 as its contribution toward the building of a municipal sewer system,” about 45% of the total cost of the project.
Source notes
National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 24. "Riverhead Gets Federal Aid For Sewer"; Suffolk County News [Sayville, NY], Sept. 13, 1935.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 6, 2014.
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