- City:
- Hudson, WI
- Site Type:
- Sanitation and Water Disposal, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
Description
According to the testimony of Wendall Peterson, City Attorney of Hudson during hearings in Congress over a toll bridge in 1941, the Works Progress Administration was involved in constructing a large storm sewer 4 or 5 blocks long. The City Attorney of Hudson described how the Wisconsin State Board of Health was forcing them to build a Sewage Disposal plant that was being lined up next year. The previous speaker, Mayor James Newton mentions the sewage plant, how the state was forcing them to build it, and that the estimated cost was $65,000. See source below.
Source notes
Free Bridge at Hudson, Wis: Hearings Before the Bridge Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, By United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, May 7, 1941.
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on May 7, 2020.
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