- City:
- Idaho Falls, ID
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Dams
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1938
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built or improved a power dam in the city of Idaho Falls, Idaho. Judging from the photograph on the WPA record card in the National Archives, the dam is the one across the Snake River just above the Idaho Falls, which diverts part of the river into the hydroelectric power station run by Idaho Power Company. (The card gives the location as Briggs, Bonneville County, but there is no such place)
The diversion from the falls to the power plant is obscured by a highway bridge and park in the middle of the river below the bridge.
A rock wall along the bank of the Snake River also looks very much like WPA work.
We cannot be sure exactly what work the WPA did at the site.
Source notes
National Archives Record Group 69N
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on November 2, 2017.
Additional contributions by Richard Walker.
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