#Tamara

• #Floating Flocs
• #Training

#Future Work
#Presentations
#Cuatro Comunidades
#Rotary Proposal
#Ojojona
#La 34
#Marcala

Tamara

For the last couple weeks there have been serious problems with La Chorera source and conduction line.The plant has been without water from the source several times, due to sediment clogging the intake at the source. The water returns when the Junta or people from the National Penitentiary (who also take their water from the Chorrera) go up there to clean the source.
When the Chorrera comes back after going out, it comes really dirty (150+ NTU) for about an hour.
On Tuesday, July 12 we went to the Chorera with Naaman and Ing. Serrano to see what can be done to prevent the intake from clogging and to prevent air from entering the conduction line. They recommend eliminating the current prefiltration system and catching the water in a trough cut into the top of the dam. This modification will not be that expensive. Naaman put together a budget that will be presented to the Junta. We will try to use some of $4000 in extra Rotary grant to do this.

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Had a 2-day training workshop Thursday and Friday July 10 and 11 for potential new operators. 4 new people came to be trained Thursday and 3 or them returned for Friday. One of those people will be replacing Karin, the current fontanero, at the end of July and the Junta is thinking of hiring another one of them to help the fontanero and Carlos. The workshop included a brief explanation of the theory behind the plant, but was mainly practical. Alexis came from Ojojona to participate in the workshop and spent Thursday night at the plant with Carlos. We suggested that the newly trained operators come for a couple hours each sometime in the next month to work alongside Carlos.

Future Work

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Train Carlos to use the second data sheet every day.
Promote communication between Carlos and the fontanero who is measuring chlorine in the household connections.
Train someone from the Junta to enter the plant data into the computer.

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