- City:
- Hyder, AK
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Flood and Erosion Control
- New Deal Agencies:
- Army Corps of Engineers, Federal & Military Operations, Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Completed:
- 1935
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
“This [project] provides for the control of floods at the town of Hyder by the reconstruction of 681 feet of existing dike, construction of 3,653 feet of new dike, and clearing of the flood plain west of the present channel.” $34,231.20 allotted by PWA
Source notes
Annual Reports, War Department, Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1936, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, pp. 9 and 1592-1593
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on May 23, 2017.
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