Sewage Disposal Plant Modernization – Bordentown NJ

City:
Bordentown, NJ

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Started:
1936

Description

The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked to modernize Bordentown, New Jersey’s sewage disposal plant in 1936. The plant had “been in need of drastic changes for years[, but] the city ha[d] not been financially able to stand the cost.”

The plant discharges into Black Creek, which forms the southern boundary of Bordentown Township.

Source notes

"The Dawn," a New Jersey WPA publication; February 1936 issue, page 5. Found at the Jersey City Public Library's New Jersey Room.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 2, 2015.
Additional contributions by Matt Pey.

Location Info


Route 206 and Farnsworth Avenue
Bordentown, NJ

Location notes: The entrance to the sewer plant is right at the Route 206 and Farnsworth Avenue intersection, on the NW of there.

Coordinates: 40.13997945976831, -74.70704930705188

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