- City:
- Hatfield, MA
- Site Type:
- Water Supply, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1937
Description
The federal Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) furnished the cost of labor for the cleaning of the two reservoirs for the Town of Hatfield: the Mountain Street and Running Gutter Reservoirs.
Town Report: “With the help of WPA funds, we have done some work at the [Mountain Street] reservoir this summer. The small [Running Gutter] reservoir can be cleaned in one day, with two men; while it took fifteen men there for two weeks.”
Source notes
Hatfield Annual Town Report, 1937 https://archive.org/details/hatfieldannua19361944hatf https://www.townofhatfield.org/Pages/HatfieldMA_Bcomm/Open/ReservoirLoopTrail.pdfSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on June 7, 2016.
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