- City:
- Raymondville, TX
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Completed:
- 1940
Description
A massive long-term project undertaken with PWA funding was the construction of a waterworks and irrigation system in Willacy County, TX.
The $4,853,000 PWA allotment aided nearly 75,000 combined acres in Willacy and Hidalgo counties. The work included “a pumping plant, settling basin, canals and distributing pipe line.” (The Orange Leader)
Source notes
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth289540/m1/1 "Five Million Alloted PWA Project"; The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 290, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 10, 1933 https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299629/m1/4/zoom/?q=PWASite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 15, 2014.
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