- City:
- Portland, ME
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA)
- Started:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) built sewers on Johansen, Oakley, and Sherwood Streets in Portland, ME, in 1934.
A photo courtesy of the Maine Memory Network depicts the sewer construction by CWA crews in 1934.
Source notes
Maine Memory Network: https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/12053
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on April 17, 2019.
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