- City:
- Middletown, NY
- Site Type:
- Sanitation and Water Disposal, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) installed a drain pipe that enabled better drainage for Cottage Street.
Middletown Times Herald: “Cottage street drainage will be effected by a reinforced rain pipe which will run from street southerly arid parallel with Wisner avenue to about 200 feet north of Wickham avenue and then easterly and parallel with Wickham to a point near the city line. The pipe will cover a distance of approximately 1,200 feet.”
Source notes
"Monhegan Brook Culvert Project Still Featured In City's WPA Program," Middletown Times Herald, Jun. 8, 1938 (pg. 34): https://www.newspapers.com/article/middletown-times-herald-wpa-project-mon/129634866/
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 7, 2023.
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