- City:
- Powell, WY
- Site Type:
- Sanitation and Water Disposal, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding, Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
Description
A sanitary sewer construction project project in Powell, Wyoming was undertaken as a federal Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) project during the Great Depression. PWA Docket No. WY [X]1100
Furthermore, the Civil Works Administration (CWA) constructed sewers in Powell. Cassity: “In Powell, one CWA project set out to “extend, excavate, backfill Powell sewer for 1800 feet; lay 18” sewer pipe, construct manholes and connect to present sewer system.”
Source notes
National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 157.
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 April 17, 2017.
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