• CCC Camp at Waimea - Kauai HI
    The Civilian Conservation Corps built a camp at Waimea on Kauai for 80 enrollees. The expenditure was $68,415.37. The CCC worked in forested areas in the vicinity of this camp, and their work typically included projects like tree planting; truck, foot and horse trail construction; construction of foot bridges; installation of fences; seed collection; erosion control and construction of check dams; building shelter houses; “elimination of undesirable animals” ; “eradication of exotic plants”; installation of pipe lines and telephone lines; camp ground development.  
  • Filtration Plant - Omao, Kauai HI
    The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded new construction or improvement work for a filtration plant in Omao, on the island of Kauai. The PWA grant amounted to $20,925. The work was carried out in 1938. The project, listed as Docket No. TH-1065-F, was part of the PWA’s non-federal projects expenditures for the Territory of Hawaii for 1938-1939.
  • High School Gymnasium - Lihue HI
    The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded new construction or improvement work for a gymnasium at the high school in Lihue, Kauai. The PWA grant amounted to $26,280. The work was carried out in 1938. The project, listed as Docket No. TH-1064-F, was part of the PWA’s non-federal projects expenditures for the Territory of Hawaii for 1938-1939.
  • Kauai Belt Road - Kauai HI
    The National Industrial Recovery Administration awarded the “United States Public Works project no. NRH-12-B, Kauai Belt Road for the sum of $354,355.63.” The two-lane highway continues to serve as the primary thoroughfare between most inhabited communities on the island.
  • Port Allen Harbor - Eleele HI
    The Army Corps of Engineers, the Public Works Administration, and the National Industrial Recovery Administration funded and conducted improvement operations in the Port Allen Harbor between 1934 and 1935. The work consisted of creating a 1,200 foot “rubble-mound breakwater,” and dredging the “harbor basin about 1,000 feet wide, 1,500 feet long, and 35 feet deep; and an entrance channel 500 feet wide and 35 feet deep.” The estimated cost of the work in 1933 was $ 880,000 for new work, of which 200,000 was the contribution of local entities. The estimated cost for annual maintenance was $15,000. In October 1935, about $680,000 were...
  • Waterworks - Hanalei HI
    The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded new construction or improvement work on a waterworks project in Hanalei on Kauai. The PWA grant amounted to $13,500, and the work was carried out in 1938. The project, listed as Docket No. TH-1090-F, was part of the PWA’s non-federal projects expenditure for the Territory of Hawaii for 1938-1939.