Media Contact: Nedra Darling, OPA-IA Phone: 202-219-4152
For Immediate Release: May 2, 1957

Award of a construction contract for a sewage treatment plant on the Fort Apache Reservation (White River), Ariz., was announced today by the Department of the Interior.

The contract was awarded to C. R. Davis Contracting Company of Albuquerque, New Mexico, on that firm’s low bid of $56,491.50. Two other bids of $67,381.48 and $78,000 were received.

The new plant will serve approximately 400 people at the Theodore Roosevelt School located on the reservation near White River, Arizona. There are some 346 pupils enrolled in the school.

The sewer contract calls for construction of new sewer lines and manholes, and a new sewage treatment plant consisting of sewage lagoons, complete with connecting piping.