- City:
- Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, VIRGIN-ISLANDS
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Completed:
- 1937
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
“$50,000 water supply project at Charlotte Amalie… for utilization of salt water… for sanitation and for fire-protection purposes… Water is pumped from the sea into a new concrete tank 250 feet above the town… two new power pumps with a capacity of 12,000 gallons an hour force it through a new network of pipes to homes for sewage and to hydrants for the fire protection purposes… to overcome the problem of rust corrosion by salt water in cast-iron pipes, PWA engineers put a concrete lining in 7,000 feet of water mains and 5,000 feet of sewers.”
Source notes
“Seawater Utilized For Town Sanitation,” New York Times, August 23, 1937Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on May 22, 2017.
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