- City:
- Casper, WY
- Site Type:
- Sanitation and Water Disposal, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Civil Works Administration (CWA), Work Relief Programs, Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
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
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 25, 2022.
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