Water System – Vancouver WA

City:
Vancouver, WA

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Started:
1937

Description

A WPA press release from Dec. 1937 announced:
A project “expected to swing into action December 20, is financed by a WPA grant of $174,763, and will provide the City of Vancouver, Wash. with an entirely rebuilt domestic water system within one year.”

Source notes

WPA Press Release [#356], Dec. 1937, [page 56]: https://www.sos.wa.gov/legacy/images/publications/SL_wpawapressrelease_no301to400/SL_wpawapressrelease_no301to400.pdf

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on October 28, 2014.

Location Info


Vancouver, WA Clark County

Location notes: General marker for Vancouver, WA

Coordinates: 45.639, -122.661

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