Today the first group of civil engineering students from the Takoradi Polytechnic Institute arrived. Gary gave a well spoken introduction of the Engineers Without Borders organization along with who we are and what our goals are for this project. The students and a few faculty members spent the day with Gary, Rod, Mike, and the plant supervisor “Robert” walking along the entire water treatment process from the pump intake at the Crocodile River dam through the aeration/sedimentation, filtration, pH control and disinfection, and initial storage facilities and getting an overview of the entire Axim water system and how it operates. Robert has been an invaluable asset in helping us understand how Axim’s water supply, treatment, and distribution system operates, and he was very gracious to take his time to describe the processes and facilities to the students. After all, the first he heard of his involvement as an instructor was when a van of 15 students and faculty pulled up in front of his office at 10:AM this morning. Rod had a few students helping him begin the survey from the treatment plant to town while Gary had the rest of the students perform field take-offs of the treatment facilities. We thoroughly enjoyed working with the engineering students and staff and know the feeling was mutual. I will sign off now because there is a strange insect sneaking up on me and I am not sure what it’s intentions are. –Mike
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