Thanks Phil, Great report! Congratulations to the team, the water committee, the community, and Alcance, for making such wonderful progress on this important project. In the kickoff meeting, Bayardo Obando from Alcance told the story of how the community has wanted and worked on this water project since 1996. It touched me in terms of how important it is for us to complete this with them. Phil gets kudos for managing the workflow through the entire two-team visit, as does Javier for supporting us long-distance in dealing with tough questions about the design. We had … [Read more...] about Successful Early Implementation trip for EWB El Llanito, Nicaragua
EWB
Leaving Gamboa, Panama
I’m was at Canopy B&B, waiting for ride to airport. Now I’m in line at the airport. I had great time here. I came to visit Andrew Quitmeyer, at Digital Naturalism Laboratories (DINA: https://www.dinacon.org) via invitation from Shannon Dosemagen, long-time Public Lab friend. You can see what Public Lab is about at: https://publiclab.org/ I’d been intrigued by a map and 3-D model of Gamboa that Andy had made from a drone flight. I brought my new Mavic Mini that I had maybe 6 min of flight time with. Andy coached me, and we flew a section of Gamboa Marsh where a music festival had … [Read more...] about Leaving Gamboa, Panama
First tap stand complete
The apron will come later. We want to wait till we put the pipe in the open trench alongside it and bury that so we can put the apron on top of that area. … [Read more...] about First tap stand complete
Slab poured for Well Support Building for El Llanito, Nicaragua water supply project
We’re relieved this is poured and curing. Thanks to all who worked Sunday to get this completed. … [Read more...] about Slab poured for Well Support Building for El Llanito, Nicaragua water supply project
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Formed and poured first valve box for main line junctions
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Martin, the lead builder, wanted to make examples of all the valve box types. He’s already done one for the air relief valve (which will be the same for the blow out valves). So we still need to do one for the tap stand meters and shut off valves. This was in progress when our first group left this morning to go to the airport. … [Read more...] about Formed and poured first valve box for main line junctions