Las Alcantaras
| Project Start Date: | Thursday, January 10, 2008 |
| Completion Date: | 11/10/2008 |
| Target Completion | - |
| People: | 160 |
| Number of Homes: | 25 |
Project Details
- Design will accommodate growth to 160 residents
- Residents are subsistence farmers
- System draws water from 3 small springs sending the flows to a single storage tank
- Simple distribution network provides 14 stands very near residences
- Pipeline from spring to tank = 626m
- Distribution network pipeline = 2121m
- Each family contributed 118 man-days of work
- Previously drew water from unimproved pits and seasonal streams
- Previous water never dropped below several hundred coliforms /100ml