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• elissam wrote a new blog post: Day 40   3 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  We fly back to the states within the next couple of days. Charlie and I flew out this morning from Lima at 7AM. Richard leaves later this evening, and Jeremy and Paolo both missed their flights because the bus from Chiclayo got in to Lima late, so they will be leaving as soon as they

• elissam wrote a new blog post: Day 39   3 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  We  caught the busses last night from Pedro Ruiz, and are now stopped in Chiclayo. Jeremy and Paolo’s bus has left- they have a direct ride to Lima and had only stopped for about half an hour. Charlie, Richard, and I spent the day in Chiclayo because we missed our 8:30 AM bus connection, and

• elissam wrote a new blog post: Day 38   3 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  We spent the morning going over the preliminary project report that one of the government engineers had made earlier this year and finding the President of the University in Chachapoyas to sign the agreement from yesterday. Now that we have all of the signatures, we are officially collaborating on the filtration project with the government

• elissam wrote a new blog post: Day 37   3 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  We split up this morning. Jeremy, Paolo, Lucho and I left with a couple members of the water board for Chachapoyas to sign the collaboration agreement for the filter construction. Chalie and Richard stayed in Chirimoto to take the other soil sample and flow rate at Lambras and help clean up after the festival.

  Somehow I managed

• elissam wrote a new blog post: Day 36   3 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  Today was our last day in Chirimoto. We drove Achamal to see the quarry in the morning. There were several sizes of rock and sand that look to be the right sizes for a couple of the filter layers. We are not sure if we will be buying the sand from this or another quarry,

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