October Meeting Notes and November Meeting Reminder

[Engineers Without Borders]

Hello EWB-HRP Members,

 

On October 10^th we held a social meeting at New Realm Brewing in Virginia Beach. We discussed our options on finding a new project. Currently we are hoping to hear back from two sources:

• EWB Guatemala office – we’ve been told by Steve Crowe (Country Director) that there are more projects in the pipeline for Guatemala but likely won’t be posted until January/February at the earliest.
• Virginia Rural Water Association – still waiting to hear back from our contact and the circuit riders on potential projects in Virginia, east of I-95.  

EWB Guatemala’s office held another conference call with the ODU student chapter October 22^nd. Key points from the call are listed below:

• ODU chapter held a community call with La Reforma on October 17^th – will continue to have calls on a monthly basis
• A surveyor is being hired by EWB Guatemala to provide survey including house elevations.
• Continued effort by ODU chapter and EWB Guatemala to prepare scope of work and cost estimate for implementation.
• Preliminary pump sizes for the different alternatives to be provided to EWB Guatemala by the ODU chapter within two weeks.
• Guatemalan municipality’s original plans were to contribute 25% of the project costs. With 5 municipal projects going into implementation in the next year, a meeting is being held with the Mayor to confirm/update this expectation.

Our November social/meeting will be at 6pm on the 14^th at Quirks at 189 Central Park Ave in Town Center, Virginia Beach. Please come join us as we discuss the ODU chapter project and potential new Professional chapter projects.  

 

Best regards,

EWB-HRP

 

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