- City:
- Pennsauken, NJ
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1936
Description
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) graveled “2.1 miles of Pennsauken streets at a cost of $11,552 to WPA for labor and only $1,337 to the township for materials” in 1936. Furthermore the WPA conducted a “drainage and excavation project” involving the resurfacing of 13.9 miles of streets; “WPA cost, $322,271; township cost $25,577.”
Source notes
"The Dawn," a New Jersey WPA publication; October 1936 issue, page 24. Found at the Jersey City Public Library's New Jersey Room.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 13, 2015.
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