Oxon Run Stream Modifications – Washington DC

State:
WASHINGTON-DC

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Flood and Erosion Control

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA)

Started:
1933

Completed:
1934

Quality of Information:
Moderate

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
Unknown

Description

Work: A Journal of Progress reported on Civil Works Administration (CWA) relief work at Oxon Run in the southeast District in 1933-1934, which included “lowering the stream bed in some sections, straightening out bends and clearing away debris to increase the rapidity of the run off of water.”

Source notes

District of Columbia Works Progress Administration, “Guarding Washington Health,” Work: A Journal of Progress, Vol. 1, No. 1, Sept. 1936, p. 27

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on June 5, 2015.
Additional contributions by Richard A Walker.

Location Info


Oxon Run
Washington, DC 20032

Location notes: Location is approximate

Coordinates: 38.8395, -76.9857

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