Voices from Panama
Evan Sussman: rainwater catchment and wells
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Evan Sussman talks about rainwater catchment and wells, the two approaches that shaped the development of our water work.
Transcript
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Automatically transcribed from the audio; may contain errors.
My name's Evan Sussman. Some of the things we did down there, we put in water catchment
tanks and gutters on where there was metal roofs, we could just put a gutter on and they
could have clean water. We actually drilled wells. It's an auger that you drive two people
walk around in a circle and you turn it, it pulls about a foot of dirt, a foot by
four inches of dirt out of the ground and you one foot at a time you drill a well
and once you start to hit water you keep going and ideally you go about as far as
you can go down unless you engage rock or something impenetrable. We've got this
hole in the ground we take plastic pipe that we've cut perforations and we slip
this down as far as the hole goes and we put gravel around it. Once we've got
that in the ground we can now drop our pump down in the ground you've got a
well
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Draft translation of the automatic transcript; may contain errors.
Me llamo Evan Sussman. Algunas de las cosas que hicimos allí fueron instalar tanques de captación de agua
y canaletas. Donde había techos de metal, bastaba colocar una canaleta para que
pudieran tener agua limpia. También perforamos pozos. Es una barrena que manejan dos personas
caminando en círculo y haciéndola girar. Saca aproximadamente un pie de tierra, un pie por
cuatro pulgadas de tierra del suelo, y así se perfora un pozo, un pie a la vez.
Cuando se empieza a encontrar agua, se sigue bajando. Lo ideal es llegar
lo más profundo que se pueda, salvo que se encuentre roca o algo impenetrable. Tenemos este
agujero en el suelo, tomamos un tubo de plástico al que hemos hecho perforaciones y
lo bajamos hasta el fondo del agujero, colocando grava a su alrededor. Una vez que
está en el suelo, podemos bajar la bomba y ya tenemos un
pozo.
