West Sacramento Sites

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built a firehouse in the then unincorporated area of Broderick (now West Sacramento) for the Washington Fire District.  The building is now privately owned. According to the Sacramento Bee on May 13, 2016, the station had "been long vacant" when it was acquired by Derar Zawaydeh and Philippe Masoud, owners of  chain of brewpubs called "Burgers and Brews." The downstairs was converted into a restaurant and the upstairs became the bar and club.  Thankfully, the Art Deco architecture of the building was preserved. 

WPA Job Card: WPA Project No. 65-3-4804, Approval Date 2-18-36, $7,711, "Sacramento River By-pass. Levee reconstruction. Move levees running across by-pass, the dirt to be scraped into the paralleling ditch from which it originated." (Reclamation Bd.) "WPA Project No. 6654, Yolo County, commenced operations on April 2nd since which time an average of 31 men have been employed on clearing brush and timber from levees of the Sacramento By-pass and poisoning squirrels."  

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) carried out flood control works on the Sacramento River across twenty counties in Northern California, beginning in 1939. The project was sponsored by the State of California Department of Public Works and the work was performed by WPA relief workers. The estimated labor for the project was 480,592 federal man-hours. The scope of the project was broad, including cleaning levees and channels of brush, repairing and improving levees, replacing drainage systems and reconstructing appurtenant structures like bridges, weirs and levee roads. The exact sites where this work was done cannot be determined without further research -- if ever.