The work in action
Caitlin explains the well process
1:02
Caitlin gives a field explanation of the well process, bringing a closer view of the work behind each well.
Transcript
Read in English
Automatically transcribed from the audio; may contain errors.
Simone drilled this well last week so initially when a well is drilled we leave the billar bucket
with the community so the homeowners the ones that are going to be using this well
use the billar bucket to clean out the well so initially when you drill you're going to have
sediment that is in the water so you you drill you put in your casing pipe your filter pack
everything but you're still going to have essentially dirty water in there and you have
to spend time cleaning out. Usually about a week, they have to go bail. So we teach them,
Simone teaches them how to bail. So they have to shake up the water, they have to do different
things to try to agitate the bottom and get the soil out. And once they do that for a
week, then they start to pull out fairly clear water like that. And so when Simone knows
that it's clear enough, then he's going to install the pump. And so that's what
what we're here to do today is turn.
Read in Spanish · translation
Draft translation of the automatic transcript; may contain errors.
Simón perforó este pozo la semana pasada. Al principio, cuando se perfora un pozo, dejamos el tubo de achique
con la comunidad, para que los propietarios, las personas que van a usar este pozo,
lo utilicen para limpiar el pozo. Al principio, cuando se perfora, quedan
sedimentos en el agua. Se perfora, se instala el tubo de revestimiento y el empaque de grava,
todo eso, pero todavía queda agua sucia allí, y hay que
dedicar tiempo a limpiarlo. Normalmente, durante una semana más o menos, tienen que achicar. Les enseñamos;
Simón les enseña a achicar. Tienen que agitar el agua y hacer diferentes
cosas para remover el fondo y sacar la tierra. Una vez que lo hacen durante
una semana, empiezan a sacar agua bastante clara, así. Cuando Simón sabe
que está lo suficientemente clara, instala la bomba. Por eso
hemos venido hoy a [final poco claro].
