CCC Irrigation Headwalls - 1941 - Siskiyou County, CA
N 41° 55.697 W 121° 36.266
10T E 615708 N 4642755
Two dated concrete headwalls from 1941 as part of an irrigation canal were constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and reside just west of Dorris Brownell Rd.
Waymark Code: WMVN0D
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 05/06/2017
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Back in 2012 my then-girlfriend (now wife) were spent the day looking for benchmarks and spotted these dated concrete headwalls where a
benchmark resides. Both the east and west headwalls are stamped 'CCC 1941' and at one time supported a wooden bridge that spanned the irrigation canal. The bridge is gone and been replaced by elevated dirt with a metal pipe culvert passing through the middle. At the time, my girlfriend and I had no idea what 'CCC' stood for. I later found out that it stands for Civilian Conservation Corps which was a New Deal program enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This program was one of many public work relief programs that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 17–23. Camp Tulelake was a CCC camp that operated not far from this irrigation canal and these young men created many concrete structures like this one to aid farmers and ranchers in the Klamath Basin as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project improvements. The was also a CCC camp located in the Lava Beds south of here and so it's possible these concrete headwalls may have been constructed by these men. This is the most current dated CCC project I've come across in this area since all other dated projects I've found are from the 1930s. Some neat preserved history here.