Evening star., 1941-08-16
District Lists
Defense Facility
Works Il Needs
EnIorging Of Water
Plant Tops $4,000, 900
Of Projects Sought

Specific projects that District
authorities hope to obtain for the
Capital through the $l50,O00, 900 re-
Gently appropriated by Congress for
urgently needed community facili-
ties in defense areas were revealed
officially for the first time today.
Virtually all of the $6,000,000 in
projects sought here now, however,
were included in an unofficial report
on some $4,000, 900 in defense needs
listed by the District and published
In The Star more than three months
ago.
Items making up the $4,000, 900 re-
uuested were made public late yes
terday when District heads met with
the Defense Public Works EevieW
Committee, which is aiding the
White House and the Federal Works
Agency in determining how the
sl500OO,OOO authorized under the
Lanham Act should be distributed
among defense areas.
The project would correct condi-
directly to expanding population
and additional Government activi-
ties caused by the defense program.
Overcrowding of schools and hos
pitals was shown clearly, as was
need for additional streets, sewers,
water facilities and fire protection
equipment.
Water Plant Most Pressing.
Most pressing of local require
ments, John B. Gordon, District
sanitary engineer, told the commit
tee are thenS5O0,O00 project for en-
largement Of the Dalecarlia water
plant and 100000 project for a
30-inch water main that supplies
Boiling Field the Naval Air Station
and the 600-home-unit housing
center in Anacostia for families of
Navy enlisted men and civilian
workers.
In addition to it's present heavy
load, created largely by the influx of
defense families to Washington and
nearby Virginia, Mr.. Gordon said
that the Dalecarlia plant will be
called on to furnish water for the
new mammoth War Department
building approved by the Congress
for Arlington.
The 30-inch water main supplying
the military and naval centers in
Anacostia is so burdened, according
to Mr.. Gordon, that the Army does
not dare sprinkle its air field there
to keep down dust. And if the
present main were put out of COM
mission. he warned, there is now
no other way these stations could
receive an adequate supply of water.
Boiling Field Storm Sewers.
Members of the Review Commit
tee appeared impressed, also with
the necessity of installation Of an
adequate storm sewer near Boiling
Field that would prevent periodic
floods that now put the field out of
commission after heavy rains. For
this, the District seeks S706,000.
Two new schools are sought-one
an eight-room elementary school at
Nichols avenue and Atlantic streets
Sc and the other Junior high
school for colored at Forty-ninth
street and Washington place lie.
The first is needed mainly because
of the some 900 children of defense
families in the Bellevue develop
ment, where the nearest school is
more than a mile away. Enrolment
at the Brown Junior High School
which the projected new junior high
school is designed to relieve-has
reached 500 more than its 900 ca
pacity.
Other public school projects asked
for were a 10-room and gymnasium
addition to Taft Junior High School,
six more classrooms at Lafayette
Elementary School, eight rooms and
a gymnasium at the elementary
school at Forty-ninth and Hayes
streets NE. and four additional
classrooms at the Bunker Hill
School.
Fire Protection Asked.
Fire protection urged included
construction of an engine house
rear Fort Totten Park, in a vicinity
comprised mainly of wooden frame
houses, and extension of the fire
alarm system to now unprotected
portions of the Southeastern sec
ton.
For Gallinger Hospital, where pub
lie demands have increased by one
third since early 1910, the District
requested 100000 for q maternal
and child ward.
g.. Street and highway developments
asked for, it was said, were mainly
to connect or serve military reser-
vations. Improvements listed by
District officials we're paving of M
street Sc. from Fourth to Eleventh
streets; Twenty-first street NV.
from Virginia to Pennsylvania ave-
nues; Twenty-third street NV,
from Washington Circle to Virginia
avenue, and Independence avenue
S.W. from Sixth to Twelfth streets.
Other Projects.
Among other projects for which
funds were sought were: a 24-inch
water main in Anacostia from the
reservoir to Nichols avenue: en-
largement of the District refuse d.
visions garage and shop facilities;
comfort stations primarily for
service mem on U street NV. be-
tween Ninth and Tenth streets, at
Wisconsin and M streets NV. and
at Fourteenth and Water streets;
and a sewage treatment plant to
protect Fort George B. Meade from
refuse now dumped into the Pa
tuxent River from the District
Training School near Laurel, Md.
District authorities have asked for
enabling legislation authorizing
them to obtain grants and loans
Tor the defense community facility
projects. While the review commit
tee that heard District needs recited
here yesterday will make recon-
mendations to the Federal Works
Agency. which has been designated
by Congress to supervise the COM
munity facilities program, final de-
termination of just what cities and
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