Cuatro Comunidades

Wil, John and Tamar went to the construction site on Monday 12.15. The walls of the flocculation tank are plastered with cement, and the other remaining walls are standing with bricks. We decided the depth of the exit channel should be the same as the exit box. Originally it was supposed to be deeper. We also decided upon the exact location of the 3 pipes (one for draining the tank, one for cleaning the top of the sedimentation tank, and one for ___). We realize it is important to define exactly where all the pipes will go in the drawings in the future.
Construction at the plant will continue until Dec 24. It will continue 27-30th and commence again on the 2nd of Jan. Ing. Wil Serrano will be in communication with Santos, the construction manager while most of the office is on vacation.

Students Itinerary

We worked on finalizing the schedule for the students coming in January: itinerary09
We are very excited to be bringing speakers to the communities, planning a health fair and meeting university students from the UNAH.

UNAH Students

The mechanical engineering students at the UNAH (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras) presented on their work this semester researching the fabrication of the float in Honduras. There report is attached in Spanish. They had difficulty finding materials and the prototype that they constructed did not function. They hope to continue working with us on the AguaClara project in future classes. Currently we have plans to bring some of the students to the plant in Tamara to work on the construction of the new dose controller. Professor Guadalupe Nunez also introduced us to Roger Ham, (roger.ham@usa.net) in charge of the laboratory space at the UNAH. They both hope to meet with Monroe in January to strategize how to continue to work with our university.

Tamara

Antonio went to Tamara to check on the plant. We think the floating floc problem has been resolved temporarily by cleaning the source.