- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
In 1938-1939, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) installed a short Water Main on Pennsylvania Avenue, between Thirty-Third Place and Carpenter Street SE
The Annual Report of the DC government provides details: “A 16-inch main in Pennsylvania Avenue between Thirty-third Place and Carpenter Street SE. This main, totaling 340 linear feet, was undertaken as a W. P. A. project and was extended to serve property being developed. It will ultimately be extended to the Anacostia pumping station at Eighteenth Street and Minnesota Avenue SE to provide a second feeder line from the pumping station to Alabama and Pennsylvania Avenues to augment the Anacostia second high service now only supplied by a 12-inch main to the water tower at the Stanton School.”
Presumably, the main was later connected to the pumping station. The main may still be in place, but would be invisible to everyone but the staff at DC Water and Sewer Authority.
Source notes
Report of the Government of the District of Columbia, For the Year Ended June 30, 1939, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940, pp. 99-100.
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on February 26, 2020.
Additional contributions by Richard A Walker.
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