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4-18?7 WO R K S PROGRESS * * A D MI N I S T R A T I O N * For Releas e Sunday February 5 , 1939 WPA IMPROVI NG FJWDlIBDS OF 1.7ATER AND SEWER SYSTEMS MONTHLY Works Pro gr ess Administrati on e mployes comp l e t ed J.800 p r ojects extending or impro ving sewerage systems and 600 projects extending or i mprpving water supply systems b etween July 1 and. November 1 , a cc ording t o a survey of physical accom:olis~unents made :public today by Colonel F . C. Harrington , Wo1·ks Progress Ad.._~inistra tor . The survey of accom-rilishments covered t he ent ir e fi eld of publiclyownod utilities , h1cluding sanitation and public heal th faciliti e s and conservation v,ork, in addition t o water c1.nd s ewer syst e:-:is . Each r.ionth, at the r a t e of opor at i ons du.ring t his pe riod , W?A has been comple ting p r oje cts p r oviding : 284 mil e s of s ewer s , 5898 n ew service c onne cti on s and 8 , 000 mnnho l es and catch basins; 141 miles of vmt er li nes and 5079 n ew cons ill!ler conne ctions; 97 storage dr.i.ms , 114 wells , 32 r eservo i rs , tanks or cisterns , 10 pumping st a ti ons and 14 sewngo tr eatment p lants ; 300 mil es o f mosquito control di tchen ; 1025 da..'1ts o thor tht"!.n storage fu:tms ; 759 r e taining walls [l.nd :covdments . In addition , WPA wo rke rs each month r econst ruct ed or o t he r wine imp roved : 47 mil es of sewers , 99 service conne cti ons and 2851 manhol -:=:s and catch basins ; 1 63 miles o f wat er lines and 4873 consumer connoc ti ons ; 9 reservoirs , tanks or cisterns, 9 sovme;c tr critment p lants , 7 pumping stations and 6 sto r age d~ms . The survey sl1owed t hat 456 , 000 p orsons were employed on WPA p r o j ec t s of the type covered by tho survey at the clo so of the period . More than 11£.lf Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 4-1877 of them, or 247 , 000 , were engagP.ci on l) r o j ects conne ct ed_ with wat er and sewer syst ems . Flood cont r ol and. otht,r conservation p ro.i e cts accol;nted f or 122, 000 and sanitation ancl health for 87 , 000 . The water and sewer system p r o ,j ec ts compl e ted clur ing the four mon t :1s pr ovided 5 65 mil es of new water mains , aqueducts or distribution lines and 20 , 315 new consume r conne cti ons ; ancl 1 ,1 38 mil es of new s t orm and sanitary sewers and 23 , 594 n ow se rvic e connecttons . I mp r ovement s t o existing water and s-o·.-;era 6 e lines and n ow or imp rov ed p lant facHi ti es oenefi t 8d thousn,nds of ad-ii ti onal r es i den ts and business 0: Such works compL,t ed during t he four mo nths , in e,ddi tion to t hose alrr:!nd~r cit ed , included c onst ructi on of six ,w,t e r tr ot:~tm0nt p l ants o.nd r epai rs and improv er::ents WPA a ls o c onstruct ed 10 garbage i nc i ne r a t ors o,nd im;_wovcd to 10 such p l nnts . tno o the rs . - VTPA Yro r lw rs comp l et ed during the four months 4 , 100 do.ms , other tilQ.11 stornge dams , for cons e rva tion :pur:poses . The ditclrns dUi_; to drai:1. the breed- ing places of mo.ln.ria- transmitting and other mosquito e s to t o,lod 1 , 190 miles , gr ent e r than the diskmce fr om New Yor l: to Ko..ns~\s City . Im-,,rovoments ,rero mndo to 459 mi l e s of such ditches . Al so i n the int e r es t of con se rvi ng natural res ourc es and. u r ot ecting life and p r ope rty, the survey disclosed , WPA :pr ojec t ·.vor1:er s C'.JID!)l e t ed 244 mil es of fir eb r eaks , 239 miles of fo r es t trails and r eforoste,ti on of 1 , 898 acre s . They built 23 miles of l evee s and embankments and four n il .:,s of 1mlk- heads and improved 92 miles of levees wid emoankm(mts ruid t h r ee and one- third miles of bulkheads . Va rious ri 7er bank imp r ovements ·t o tn:1-ed 134 mil er.i and stream bed imp1·ovements 242 miles . Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 4-1877 - 3 - Sr.mi k',ry- work included the construction of 139 , 768 sani tar;:,r t oil e ts i n n.reas l o,cking pu·o lic sewe r syst ems , 3 , 895 c esspoo l s n.nd 325 se-ptic tanks . Seali ng of 862 mine openings , t o p r event po luti on of st r "J~,ms b;y acids , nlso Wf~S com}Jl otcd du.ring tho f our months . Construct i on of 12 mil es of flum e or canal and improvement tt f 54 mil es p r ov ided. irri c;ati on wate r for 3 , 055 acr e s a.'ld improved the irri gation of 1 64 , 416 acres . T·,rnlve fi sh hatcheries with .'.:!.n ann1J.£'..l fin5 orling c a:90,c i t y of 106 , 660 , 000 we r o built D.nd 16 wit h o, c n.pnc i t ~,r of 79 , 025 , 000 were im:9rovod. 00000000000000000 Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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