- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal, Flood and Erosion Control
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1933
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
According to the Washington Post, $220,500 was allotted by the Public Works Administration (PWA) for an outfall sewer extension in 1933.
According to DC Water, there are 53 sewer outfalls in the District, so the location of the work cannot be known based on this source alone.
This work was part of a massive New Deal era program to upgrade the sewers of Washington DC, separate sanitary and storm sewer systems, and install sewage treatment at Blue Plains.
The outfalls referred to here would today be storm sewers not sanitary sewers.
Source notes
“Sewer work begins at once,” Washington Post, September 1, 1933, p. 24
DC Water website
DC Water Clean Rivers Implementation Project site
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on March 6, 2015.
Additional contributions by Richard A Walker.
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