Any questions of concerns about the project please feel free to email our group at Arkansas.Engineers.Abroad@gmail.com where all of our officers will be able to access the account and will be able to get your questions answered quickly.
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4/9/2012 – Skype meeting with Ben Marts
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Piping Trip
o
Ben is going to see if we can get hired hands
§
Shouldn’t have to worry about finding workers
o
Need to figure out how deep to dig the trenches
for pipes
o
There is a 2ft elevation change from the tower location
to the faucet location
o
Shutoff valve at base of tower (lockable)
o
Calculate head loss for connection joints
o
Run pipe down the structural membrane of tower
o
Ben is not going on piping trip
·
Ben is okay with having his full name on the
blog
·
Ben bought plane tickets through Cheryl Nimmo
o
Kim needs to talk to her
o
She is the Civil Engineering financial person
o
Also need to talk to the lady in the Dean’s
office
o Talk to media coordinator for Bell (Camilla Medders)
§
She can advertise for us
§
Located near the stairs by Dean’s office
·
Think about getting a Media Chair
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4/2/2012 – Skype meeting with Ben Marts
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Good news
o
Working on connections for tower design
o
Numbers are good on Ben’s part
o
Ben is going to talk to a structural engineer on
the 4th
·
EIA – Engineers in Action
o
A logistics group
o
2 potential projects
o
Are a little overwhelmed
o
Could be very helpful but we have to pay them
for their services
o
Have contacts
o
Ben thinks we should stick with Belize for a
while because we know the country
·
Get everything out of Ben’s dropbox
o
Make AEA dropbox or use Google docs
·
In-water pump
o
Pump will shut off when water lowers to prevent
picking up sediment
o
Floating pump
o
Needs to be between 1 and 2 hp
o
Get Chelsea to finish pump designs
§
Get her to make a summary of what she has done
§
Need flow from pump, power for pump, and electricity/hour
·
Ben will have work to get checked out by Friday
·
Piping Trip
o
May 12-18
o
Costs
§
Living + food = $30/day
§
Gas
§
Rental vehicle?
§
Hiring locals = $30/day/person
§
Tip Henyo
o
Send Ben an email with dates we want to come and
our float dates
o
Talk to Sheryl about insurance
o
Get drawing of map and piping layout
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03/26/12 skype with Ben and meeting with Megan
o
Megan’s contacts
·
Mozambique, Africa
§
Fully integrated farm
§
She will have details after this summer
·
Dangriga, Belize
§
Megan will email her people for details
o
Piping
·
Need piping design done in 2 to 3 weeks to see
if parts are in stores
·
CPVC or PVC
§
Need to paint it (sunlight affects it)
·
Count on 25 feet of head
·
Ask Rand where faucet should be on church
·
Can get estimated cost for pipes by multiplying
Home Depot’s prices by two
·
Give list of materials needed to Randy within 3
weeks before trip
·
Add 10% to the length of pipe we think we will need
·
2” pipe is max
o
Ben has
tower design 85% done and will be finished within 2 weeks
o
water tank will be about 10,000L
·
usually have an outlet
·
if we have to drill a hole for piping it needs
to be a foot from the bottom
o
plan on buying picks and shovels
o
Ben will look into contractors in the next 2
weeks
Skype with Ben: March 12, 2012
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Piping trip:
May 12 or 13, 2012
o
Plan for 6 days
o
Minimum of 2 days if we have a trench digger
·
Coordinates of More Tomorrow
o
17.34857, -88.69487
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Piping Designs
o
Head from tower = 10.5ft
o
Base height = 24ft
o
Assume low velocity
o
Well is next to tower
o
Ben is looking at designing a taller tower
o
Need to figure out max length of pipeline
o
Make a circle around the tower based on the
above length
o
Distribution from tower
o
May only need 1ft of head at faucets (1psi)
§
Talk to Dr. Sorrens to see if this is good
o
Water is going to school, church, NE and SW from
school
·
Figure out total gallons of water used per day
in the village
o
10gal/person
·
Need to figure out logistics on getting a truck
to drill the well
·
Ben is going to get more information on Bolivia
trip
·
We will need to run structural designs through
Randy and he will send them to one of the PE’s in Belize to get checked
·
Shower next to tower?
·
Do field tests to see if pipe will break when
driving over it at certain depths
·
What Ben would like to see done:
o
11X17 map of city
§
draw pipeline
o
Set up excel sheet with had losses
o
Figure out pipe size so Ben can send info to
contractors
o
Ben can help on things after Friday
o
Ben should have structural design done in next couple of weeks (would like to see it completed by first week of April)
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What we want to get done in 2 weeks:
o
Piping design
o
Plane tickets?
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