- City:
- Seward, AK
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Electricity
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
- Started:
- 1934
- Completed:
- 1939
- Contractor:
- Bennett and Taylor
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
Description
Public Works Administration project 6279 for an electric plant at Seward was approved 6/20/1934 for a $96,000 loan and a $30,000 grant. Construction finally began 8/6/1937 and was completed 8/7/1939 for a total cost of $136,170. The project proposed a dam and three-mile pipe line from Lost Creek to near the city and the construction of an electric plant “designed to supply practically unlimited power” (Seward will ask $148,000 PWA funds, Jan 9, 1935, p. 1). Stratton and Beers of Juneau placed the PWA bonds. Bennett and Taylor of Los Angles was awarded the contract for the construction of the electric plant. In 1938, they received an additional $6,000 for the light plant addition.
Source notes
Report No. 5. Status of Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects. (Jan 3, 1940). D. C. and Terr. Dist. of Columbia thru Hawaii. Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works Projects Division, p. 219.
Seward will ask $148,000 PWA funds for civic projects. (Jan 9, 1935). The Nome Daily Nugget, p. 1.
Mayor D. C. Brownell received recently a check...( Nov 8, 1935). Petersburg Press, p. 1.
To Seward. (July 1, 1937). The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, p. 1.
Fairbanks shares well in PWA fund. (Oc 25, 1938). The Alaska Miner, p. 15.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on October 31, 2021.
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