Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Community Well

   The well digger moved to Alègue yesterday around 11:30 AM from Don's, they unloaded and the compressor, moved up to the community well, set up and by 2:30 were starting to drill. They pushed in a 20 foot piece of 10 inch PVC casing because this well caved in the first 20 or so feet quite badly, so once that casing was in they started drilling with a nine inch bit, by 8 Tuesday night they had dug to 80 feet and put down the 6 inch casing.
   By this time there was no more cave in and it had started bringing all the mud and rock up out of the hole, which tells us it's past any cave in. This morning they're digging all the way down and putting the four inch down. I haven't heard if they're getting water out of it though. After they're done that they'll be moving down here to re drill the mission well.

Pushing in the 10 inch casing.

The well digger set up at the community well.

Grandpa Harold. Sometimes he wears a hat that says, "I owe, I owe, now of
to work I go. I'm not sure if he is working now!!!!!!!! He works so hard and
we miss him lots when he is gone for a week at a time to Cayes and Port for
literature distribution.

Lots of on lookers, when all was said and done around 8 in the evening, one
of them said, why are you quitting, there's not water yet :)

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