Ojojona

On Saturday 9.20 we took part in the Ojojona Water Board meeting. The main points we discussed were inputting the plant data in electronic format, finding a permanent operator, building a roof for the plant.

Marcala

On Tuesday 9.16 Antonio and Tamar visited the Marcala treatment plant and met up with Chris Bordlemay, Fred Stottlemyer, and Tammi Aiken. On Wednesday morning we had a meeting with both plant operators learning about their difficulties with the plant and further training them to better dose the aluminum sulfate correlating with how flocs are forming. The Marcala plant works very well and consistently yields water with NTU less than 5 NTU as long as there are chemicals to run the plant. The operators have some difficulty obtaining the aluminum sulfate and the chlorine at times from the Municipality. There is no water board in Marcala that is in charge of the water tariff funds, they act as an 'advisory council' but cannot insure that money collected to maintain the treatment plant is used for its maintenance and operation.

Tamara

On Friday 9.19 Fred, Tammi, Chris and Nick Wobbrock (a Cornell Alum and current Peace Corps Volunteer) visited the Tamara plant.

Cuatro Communidades

On Friday 9.19 and Monday 9.21 we worked on the design for the new shallow plant. Engineer Wilfredo Serrano is currently working out costs for the construction design. We hope to complete with this design and move on to the Gracias plant later this week.