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Senior Design Team: Heidi Steudle (left) Susie Jarosch
(right)
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Environmental
Project, Bolivia
CE4905 Senior
Design 2003
Slide Show Scenes of 2003 Projects
Drinking Water at the Orphanage
Skin Disease Prevention at the Orphanage
Solar
Water Disinfection Experiment |
Santa Cruz water treatment facility Saguapac
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Drinking
Water at the Orphanage
PROBLEM:
- Periodic illnesses at Hogar de la Esperanza (orphanage in Santa Cruz)
OBJECTIVE:
- Determine if drinking water
is source of illnesses
- Possible Filtration System
PROCEDURES
- Collecting Drinking Water
Samples
- Meeting with Santa Cruz
water treatment facility Saguapac
- Tested Samples for total
coliforms
- Analysis
CONCLUSION
- Drinking water not likely
source of illness
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Santa Cruz Orphanage Children
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Skin
Disease Prevention at the Orphanage
- PROBLEM
- Possible transmittance
of disease through laundry at Santa Cruz orphanage
- Scabies was main focus
- OBJECTIVE
- Is laundry transmittance
possible?
- Find solution
- PROCEDURES
- Researched laundry disinfection
- Conducted meeting with
local physician to discuss skin diseases
- CONCLUSION
- Scabies spread mainly
through human contact
- Scabies not spread
through laundry
- Treatments available
for outbreaks
- Hot-air dryer
- Disinfectants/Bleach
- Hot water washing
machine (>125 degrees F)
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Solar
Water Disinfection Experiment
- PROBLEM
- Much water is developing
countries is below drinking water standards
- Unsafe drinking water
may pose serious health threats
- OBJECTIVE
- Assess
solar water disinfection process (SODIS) developed by the Swiss Federal
Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG)
- Conduct
field Experiments
- PROCEDURES
- Researched details of
SODIS
- Developed experimental
matrix and flowchart to be implemented by the Boliva 2004 Senior
Design Students
- CONCLUSION
- If SODIS achieves Bolivian
safe drinking water standard (0 CFU/100 ml), recoomend method to
local Santa Cruz citizens
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| For more info contact: Linda
D. Phillips, PE, PMP, CDT, Lecturer MTU lindap@mtu.edu
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Michigan Technological
University
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, Michigan, 49931 - 1295, USA
Department Phone: 1-906-487-2520
Department Fax: 1-906-487-2943
Department E-mail: cee@mtu.edu
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