Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA), Works Progress Administration (WPA), Public Works Funding, Work Relief Programs
Started: 1936
Quality of Information: Minimal
Site Survival: Unknown
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Description
According to an index of WPA projects in the National Archives, the WPA constructed a sewage disposal plant, sedimentation tanks, a sludge digestion tank, and dripping beds in Lorton in 1936. In 1938, the Washington Post reported that funds were allocated for the PWA to conduct further improvements.
Exact location and status of project unknown, but the facility could now be the site of the Norman M. Cole, Jr. Pollution Control Plant, Virginia’s largest such facility.
Source notes
National Archives, Record Group 69, “Microfilmed Index to WPA Projects.”
“PWA rejects grant for a new armory,” Washington Post, September 3, 1938, p. X15
“Jobs for 2,300 here assured in PWA work,” Washington Post, October 26, 1938, p. X17
Project originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on July 6, 2013.
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