Potomac River Emergency Flood Levee – Washington DC

State:
WASHINGTON-DC

Site Type:
Flood and Erosion Control, Infrastructure and Utilities

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Started:
1936

Completed:
1936

Quality of Information:
Good

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
Unknown

Description

In 1936, relief workers from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built emergency flood levees to stop the overflow of the Potomac River. The photographs show WPA crews erecting the levees in the vicinity of the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. 

Source notes

National Archives Record Group 69-N

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on January 8, 2018.

Location Info


Ohio Dr SW
Washington , DC

Coordinates: 38.8843, -77.0474

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