- 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.
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