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Listen: The Folk ProgramGeneral view of the construction of the Cross-Florida Barge Canal.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt allocated Works Progress Administration funds for construction in 1935. Local opponents of the canal protested that the canal would deplete Florida's aquifers, and work was stopped a year later.
Work was reauthorized in 1942 as a national defense project, with dams and locks to protect the underground water supply. The Cross Florida barge canal was a project designed by the Army Corps of Engineers.
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