- City:
- Villalba, PUERTO-RICO
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Electricity
- New Deal Agencies:
- Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration (PRRA), Territories & Reservations
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
Description
The Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration (PRRA) enlarged the Toro Negro hydroelectric plant, located north of Villalba. The work consisted of “new turbines, penstock pipes, canals, transformers, switches, and other control equipment.”
Source notes
Burrows, Geoff G., "The New Deal in Puerto Rico: Public Works, Public Health, and the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration, 1935-1955," 2014 dissertation. CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/315, pp. 198.
Villalbaonline: https://villalbaonlinepr.com/index.php/noticias/1090-nace-toro-negro-hydroelectric-power-plant-una-nueva-empresa-municipal
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on October 22, 2017.
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