Rev. 09-2010
Document 521
PRE-ASSESSMENT REPORT
CHAPTER: University of Texas at San Antonio
COUNTRY: Peru
COMMUNITY: Viña Vieja
PROJECT: Viña Vieja Community
TRAVEL DATES: March 10-17, 2012
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PREPARED BY
Dustin Vasquez
Francisco Balandrano
Steven Byers
Sebastian Cardona
12/27/2012
ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USA
www.ewb-usa.org
Document 521 - Pre-Assessment Report Rev. 09-2010
EWB-UTSA
Viña Vieja, Peru
Pre-Assessment Report Part 1 – Administrative Information
1.0 Contact Information
Project Title / Name / Email / Phone / Chapter Name or Organization NameProject Leads / Dustin Vasquez / / (281) 684-6015 / EWB-UTSA
Project Leads / Francisco Balandrano / / (210) 425-9263 / EWB-UTSA
President / Zachary Mueller / / (210) 595-0070 / EWB-UTSA
Mentor #1 / Dr. John Joseph / / (210) 843-2378 / EWB-UTSA
Mentor #2 / Dr. AnnMarie Spexet / / (404) 863-0863 / EWB-
USA
Faculty Advisor (if applicable) / Dr. Heather Shipley / / (210) 458-7926 / EWB-UTSA
Health and Safety Officer / Steven Byers / / (210) 725-5715 / EWB-UTSA
Assistant Health and Safety Officer
Education Lead
NGO/Community Contact / Iliana Diaz / / 210-834-0477 / TPoA
2.0 Travel History
Dates of Travel / Assessment or Implementation / Description of TripJuly 6-13, 2010 / Assessment / Initial Contact with the community. Gathered pertinent information to begin the design of a water project. Located supplies for structural projects in the future.
3.0 Travel Team:
# / Name / E-mail / Phone / Chapter / Student or Professional1 / Francisco Balandrano / / (210) 425-9263 / EWB-UTSA / Student
2 / Steven Byers / / (210) 725-5715 / EWB-UTSA / Student
3 / Dustin Vasquez / / (281) 684-6015 / EWB-UTSA / Student
4 / Dr. John Joseph / / (210) 843-2378 / EWB-UTSA / Professional
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4.0 Health and Safety
We will follow the site-specific HASP that has been prepared specifically for this trip. The HASP report has been submitted with this document for reference.
5.0 Budget
5.1 Cost
Expense / Total CostAirfare / $4,400.00
On Ground / $350.00
Materials / ---
Other / $250.00
Total / $5,000.00
5.2 Donors and Funding
Donor Name / Type (company, foundation, private, in-kind) / Account Kept at EWB-USA? / AmountUTSA College of Engineering / Institution / No / $3,000.00
Gabrielle & Mark Niederauer / Private / No / $1,000.00
Fundraising Events / Organization / No / $1,000.00
Total Amount Raised: / $5,000.00
6.0 Project Discipline(s): Check the specific project discipline(s) addressed in this report. Check all that apply.
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Viña Vieja, Peru
Water Supply
____ Source Development
_√ _ Water Storage
_√__ Water Distribution
_√__ Water Treatment
_√__ Water Pump
Sanitation
____ Latrine
____ Gray Water System
____ Black Water System
Structures
_√__ Bridge
_√__ Building
Civil Works
____ Roads
____ Drainage
____ Dams
Energy
____ Fuel
____ Electricity
Agriculture
____ Irrigation Pump
____ Irrigation Line
____ Water Storage
____ Soil Improvement
____ Fish Farm
____ Crop Processing Equipment
Information Systems
____ Computer Service
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Viña Vieja, Peru
7.0 Project Location
Longitude: 13°28' 52'' S
Latitude: 76°0' 55'' W
8.0 Project Impact
Number of Persons directly affected: 500
Number of Persons indirectly affected: 500
9.0 Mentor Resume –
John F. Joseph, P.E., Ph.D.
(210) 843-2378
Primary Career Goal:
Provide expertise to communities who may be egregiously affected by environmental injustice, when such communities want such support. The support is to include an exchange of perspectives, in which I gain understanding of the community’s viewpoints and the community gains understanding of my technical knowledge.
Education:
Ph.D. Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2011. Dissertation, Preliminaries to Watershed Instrumentation System Design, provides a basis for proving and predicting the movement of contaminants through watersheds of communities that may be affected, particularly the Ecuadoran Cofan community, whom I visited while developing the dissertation proposal.
M.S. Environmental Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1990. Thesis, Queuing Theory Applied to Standpost Design, develops and applies Markovian matrices to determine expected waiting line lengths for drawing water in rural and peri-urban areas of the developing world, and to recommend revisions to the World Health Organization standards for standpost design. Thesis won first place in a national competition to receive the James M. Montgomery/Association of Environmental Engineering Professors Master’s Thesis Award.
B.S. Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1985.
Recipient of Kenneth Howard Academic Excellence scholarship. Graduated with Honors.
M.A. Pastoral Ministry, Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas, 2000.
This degree helped me to appreciate various cultures, and to communicate within various cultural contexts.
Teaching Experience:
Instructor, Fall ’11, EGR 2323 Applied Engineering Analysis I, University of Texas at San Antonio.
Instructor, Fall ’09 and Spring ’09, CE 2633 Introduction to Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio.
Instructor/Education Skills Specialist II, 1998-2004, various remedial math courses, Alamo Community College District, San Antonio, Texas.
Instructor, Spring ’92 and Spring ’93, CE 4643 Air Pollution and Industrial Hygiene, University of Texas at San Antonio.
Relevant Research Experience:
Research Assistant, August ’85 – Dec ’86, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Work included statistical analysis of demographic, hygiene, and sanitation data in rural Malawi. Work also included an examination of water use patterns in peri-urban Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with a two-week field visit.
Relevant Work Experience
Engineer-in-Training, Aug. ’87 – Aug. ’90, Wright-Pierce Engineers, Topsham, Maine. Reviewed shop drawings for compliance with specifications; design of pumps, piping, and chemical feed systems for 4 million gallon per day water treatment facility, subject to approval/modification by project engineer; distribution system modeling for water utility master plans.
District Area Engineer, July ‘05 – June ’08, BexarMet Water District, San Antonio, Texas. Actually, I was in training for the first few months of this time period, and did not become a District Area Engineer until later in ’05. Responsible for up to approximately 20 projects simultaneously, mostly water main projects, but also storage tanks, pumping stations, well capacity testing, and treatment facilities, and other projects.
Publications:
Joseph, J., and H. Sharif, 2009. Preliminaries to Assessing the Quality of SWAT Parameter Confidence Intervals, 2009 International SWAT Conference Proceedings, Texas Water Resource Institute Technical Report No. 356, 116-123.
Under Review by Journal of Hydrology: Joseph, J., H. Sharif, J. Arnold, and D. Bosch. The Event-Adaptive Time Series for Basin-Scale Hydrologic Model Calibration.
Miscellaneous:
University Teaching Fellow, 2009-2010 Academic Year, University of Texas at San Antonio.
The 2010 Outstanding Graduate Student for the College of Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio.
Licensed civil engineer since 1990.
One year (1995-1996) of living in rural Oaxaca, Mexico, has proven helpful in developing appreciation for other cultures.
Pre-Assessment Report Part 2 – Technical Information
1.0 INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this report is to assure that we are prepared for the trip we are about to take, and to have those preparations in writing for review. The goal of our trip is to complete another assessment trip with the Vina Vieja Community to further our knowledge on the present needs. We will assess the housing, bridge, and water needs with a greater focus on water. We will communicate with the community and assure that what we are assessing is what the community, as a whole, feels is the most necessary. Then we will gather the pertinent information needed to complete a long distance project design. We will also take this opportunity to create a stronger connection with the community and gain a better understanding of the politics, culture, and ways of life.
2.0 PROGRAM BACKGROUND
Vina Vieja is a small rural community of about 110 families. This community is located approximately 4km from El Carmen District in Chincha. The roads are almost all unpaved and consist of crossing several streambeds. The community is mostly surrounded by agricultural land and many members of the community work on those lands. They currently have no central water supply for the village and individuals figure out how to get water on their own. Sanitation and sewage disposal is also a major concern. They currently use holes in the ground for these processes and are potentially impacting the possible water resources.
After the two consecutive earthquakes in 2007, many members of the community were also left homeless. They have set up tents nearby the significantly damaged homes. The second part of the program is to help the community with training on how to rebuild homes for themselves and how to properly maintain them. The design of the homes will be focused on seismic resistant construction because of the seismic activity in the area.
In the assessment trip of June 2010, Karl Eisenacher, one of the EWB-UTSA members, was able to initiate a relationship with the community and gather important information on a well and nearby resources of the community. In the recent past the well contract had expired and now the community has a well use agreement for another well, with the contract being for ten years, starting on May 2011, and possibility of renewal. According to our knowledge, the housing condition of the community has remained unchanged since our last visit.
3.0 OBJECTIVES OF SITE ASSESSMENT TRIP
The objectives of this trip are to gather the necessary data for the water well and the water distribution system. We will start this trip off with obtaining the verification from the community that what we will be assessing is the actual need of the community. We will then move into verifying the new well agreement between the well owner and the community. We can then test the quality of the water, gather measurements of the water well, and examine the geological structure of the area around the well. We will survey the community for the points of construction for the water distribution system, identify an ideal location for the water tank, and determine sources of materials in nearby communities.
4.0 COMMUNITY INFORMATION
4.1 Description of Community
The community of Vina Vieja is located in the El Carmen District and is comprised of about 500 people in about 110 houses. Vina Vieja is stretched over two miles with an unpaved road running through the center of the community. The houses are in clusters of about fifteen to twenty along this path. The community is surrounded by agricultural land that is owned by a Common Cooperative, Cooperativa Agraria De Usuarios Manco Capac LTDA. Many of the community members actually earn their living by working on this land. The community does have consistent electricity from the country’s electrical grid which is a good resource for use with future projects. All uses of electricity should be done before 5pm, for pricing issues.
The area surrounding Vina Vieja contains several unused wells that were drilled in a time when the land was owned privately. There is no information available on the wells (i.e. depth drilled, reason for drilling, process of drilling, etc.) and they are currently owned by the Common Cooperative. Viña Vieja does have a well use agreement, for 10 years, with this Common Cooperative for the well that we are currently pursuing. The well previously examined in the past assessment trip was about 18 inches in diameter and 200+ feet deep. This past examined well did not have a favorable agreement with the community.
The housing and transportation system in the community is of poor standing. The previous earthquakes had a significant effect on the structure of the community because the buildings were not built to withstand such a catastrophe. Many of the houses were destroyed, making those people attach some tarp like material to the side wall of their crumbled houses for protection.
4.2 Community and Partnering Organization/NGO Resources and Constraints
The community has a number of members that are skilled in construction. La Chincha, a neighboring community about ten miles away, has a store that sells building supplies, such as wood, cement, steel reinforced bars and more. The community is also on the grid for electricity and in possession of an adobe brick maker. A major constraint that the community has is the means to afford the construction and replacement of project supplies.
Texas Partners of the Americas has a great connection with the community and has made many trips from Texas to Peru. They are very helpful in the logistics of our trip (i.e. transportation, contacts, communication, etc.).
4.3 Community Relations
After the previous trip we were able to keep in contact with Javier Ortiz, the President of the Executive Center of Vina Vieja, through periodic phone calls. He was able to provide us with answers to our questions regarding information that we were unclear with. Our main contact throughout this time has been with the NGO of the Community, Texas Partners of the Americas. The Texas Partners of the Americas San Antonio Chapter President, Illiana Diaz, has been helpful. They are in constant contact with the community and provide us with useful resources while traveling. They were in Vina Vieja for about three months this past summer and were able to do a lot of work in the community. Because of their close relationship with the community we were able to obtain maps and pictures of wells in the area, topographical and geological maps, and input from members of the community. We are welcome to stay in Vina Vieja free of charge and the community cooks have been properly trained on how to provide food for us.
The assessment trip will be a lot of emphasis on the community in order to make sure that we are doing what the community wants, and not what we want to be done.
4.4 Community Priorities
In the last assessment trip the community was able to communicate their concerns to the EWB-UTSA Chapter members from highest to lowest priority. At the start of this next trip we will confirm that these concerns are still the priorities of the community. The community’s main priority is a consistent water source to the community through the use of a well in the area. Next on their list was housing and bridge structures. If the community feels that a change needs to be made to that list, then actions will be taken to make sure we are looking into the community’s priorities. Once we know the community’s needs and abilities we can formulate a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to outline the project expectations on both sides.