• Pumping Station and Wells - Dracut MA
    Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) labor conducted water system expansion work in Dracut, Mass. WPA Bulletin: If you were asked to locate an additional water supply for your community probably the last place you would look would be a shaded, waterless forest. Engineers, generally a contrary lot, don't care for the obvious and a dry forest on such a quest wouldn't automatically be overlooked. Evidence of all this may be found in Dracut where, since its settlement in 1630, the town has been handicapped during dry summer weather by an inadequate water supply. When Federal funds became available a program to find...