- City:
- Ketchikan, AK
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply, Electricity, Telephone Lines
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
Description
Public Works Administration project W1026 funded improvements to the Ketchikan waterworks ($7,307), phone system ($4,411), and electric plant ($4,140). Waterworks and phone system improvements were approved 6/22/1938 and the electric plant was approved 7/7/1938. Construction began during August 1938 and was completed between January 1939 and July 1939 on all 3 sites.
Source notes
Report No. 5. Status of Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects. D. C. And Terr. Dist. Of Columbia Thru Hawaii. (January 3, 1940). Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works Projects Division, p. 219.
Fairbanks Shares Well in PWA Fund. (Oct. 25, 1938). The Alaska Miner, p. 15.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on December 11, 2021.
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