Sewers – Watertown SD

City:
Watertown, SD

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Started:
1935

Completed:
1937

Description

Multiple sewer construction projects in Watertown, South Dakota were undertaken during the Great Depression with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. Storm sewers and sanitary sewers were constructed as part of two separate PWA grants.

(PWA Docket No. SD [W]1045, [W]1076)

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 155.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on December 8, 2014.

Location Info


Watertown, SD

Location notes: General location marker for Watertown

Coordinates: 44.899, -97.115

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