Description
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) and Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) constructed sewers in north Casper, Wyoming.
Casper Star-Tribune, March 3, 1935: “A long-felt community need was laying of the North Casper sanitary sewer system, now nearing completion, at a cost of $38,158 to date.”
Cassity: “In Casper, the CWA improved and extended the sanitary sewer system to a part of town previously without.”
Source notes
Casper Star-Tribune, January 22, 1935 (pg. 10): https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/348114532/
"CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES COSTING $700,000 PROVE COMMUNITY ASSET IN 1934," Casper Star-Tribune, March 3, 1935 (pg. 27): https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/348227545/
Building Up Wyoming: Depression-Era Federal Projects in Wyoming, 1929–1943. Michael Cassity. Prepared for the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office ... (pg. 98).
https://www.michaelcassity.org/uploads/1/2/7/7/12777320/wyodepressionerafedprojects_mpdf.pdf
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 25, 2022.
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