The Chesamisi School Well – Major Workover and Pump & Wellhead Installation

A Christian based school established for the poorer families and orphans.

They currently have a non-functioning well so on most days they are walking varying distances to different sources to gather their daily water.

The current well at the school is literally just an open hole in the ground with an aging concrete deck around the open hole. A piece of wood covers the hole.

This has several difficulties:

- the water, when available, is brought up by a rope and a bucket (one gallon at a time) … usually by the women and children.

- the rope and bucket method causes turbulence in the water down hole therefore supplying dirty water.

- the open hole is a safety issue.

- the open hole also is more subject to contaminates getting in the well.

We will clean the entire well and shore the walls down hole. We will also dig out the bottom depth of the well to develop a proper “reservoir” area to insure the greatest continuous use of the well. Following that step, we’ll install a new properly designed concrete work area at the surface, including a mounting position for the well head and pump handle assembly.

A pump will be installed at the bottom of the well, a tubing string for the water to get to the surface, and a series of rods to operate the pump from the surface well head.