- City:
- Kalama, WA
- Site Type:
- Electricity, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
- Started:
- 1937
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Western Construction News reported of REA work in Washington State.
“The REA has alloted $88,000 to the Cowlitz County Public Utility District No. 1, Kalama Wash., to finance construction of 81 miles of electric transmission lines.”
” Cowlitz County Public Utility District, a Depression era institution that provides electric utility services to 47,400 customers (including 42,400 residential customers and 5,200 commercial clients) in its service territory. The municipal utility also serves more than 3,800 Longview-Kelso area water utility customers. Like 27 other PUDs in Washington state, Cowlitz County Public Utility District has the authority to offer electric, water, wastewater, and wholesale telecommunication service.”
Source notes
Western Construction News June 1937 https://www.google.com/finance?cid=9357022Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on May 10, 2017.
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