Yes, if the right public works are constructed.
We are in dire need of renewed sewer and storm water construction in many of our older cities and towns. The ones in existence are 100 to 150 years old and falling apart, and many places have no adequate storm sewers. The real cost of this is in what it does to the health of our people.
In the early 1900's mortality rates went down dramatically in the U.S. not because doctors got smarter but because of sanitary sewer construction. Now the deterioration of those sewers is causing disease which is not being acknowledged, especially when some are making a ton of money in health care for the people getting sick.
Fix the sewers and save billions in Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance costs.