- City:
- Moab, UT
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1934
- Completed:
- 1935
Description
A substantial waterworks and sewer system construction project was undertaken in Moab, Utah during the Great Depression with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA provided a $32,000 loan and $13,118 outright grant to the community for the project, whose total cost was $49,391. Construction occurred between December 1934 and May 1935.
PWA Docket No. UT 1951
On January 4, 1934, the Times-Independent newspaper reported that the Moab water/sewer project had been approved by federal officials, which also funded the Moab public school building and Grand County courthouse. Local voters had previously approved a bond issue in support of the project, which would share funding between the county and the federal government. (Frimage, p. 274)
Source notes
National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 209. Richard Frimage, History of Grand County. Grand County UT: Utah State Historical Society, 1996.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 19, 2014.
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