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Latest revision as of 04:19, 4 February 2020

kontihene
weeding
digging
digging
Tekyekrom swing.jpg
red soil
red soil
Lunch in Tekyekrom
Nicholas Ofori-Atta, the local manager
Hole on location 1
First inches on location 2
First inches on location 2
After two days of drilling on location 2
Orange earth on location 2
On location 2.jpg
Cassava for fufu
Cutting cassava
Crew cooking lunch
Praying before work
Water supply
and cook
plantain
Crew eating fufu
Water found on location 2 in Tekyekrom


Tekyekrom is situated on the Dunkwa-Obuasi road. We have succesfully drilled for water on 2 locations there. EcoSan Ghana found water on Location 1 and Location 2, using the FloFlo. See a video of the drilling on YouTube.

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The FloFlo

The FloFlo is an ancient drilling tool, modernised by dutchman Floris de Vos in 2011 (see Facebook page) The FloFlo employs a hoist using a three legged tower. The drillbit is repeatedly hoisted and released to pulvarise the hard soil as it hits the ground. Once a substantial amount of soil has been pulvarised, the drillbit is replaced by the bailer, equiped with a valve, to pull out the soil. Thus it is a manpowered drill tool. Anyone can do it, and it is cheap and efficient.

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The First Phase

Location 1 - The crew started working on September 14, 2016 (Bismarck, Akwasi Adea, Kojo Amoah, Dominic Asante, Yaw Fosu). The kontihene (head of the elders in the village) stopped by for inspection and some motivational words. After 2 days they had drilled 13 feet deep. On the third day (16/09), at a depth of only 17 feet, water was found. Two more days of drilling gave way to a depth of 28 feet (19/09/2016).

On location 2, after the first day (20/09) the hole was 8 feet deep. Then 16.4 feet (21 and 22/09), 20 feet (23/09), 24 feet (24/09), 27 feet (26/09), 31.4 feet (27/09), 35 feet (28/09), 38 feet (29/09), and 43 feet {30/09), and water was found at 46 feet deep (01/10). Three more days (03-10 to 05/10) of drilling gave way to the final depth of 53 feet.

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The Second Phase

Unfortunately, the queen decided that we could no longer build a water supply on location 1, and that this land would be sold. For that reason we decided to withdraw from Tekyekrom, and focus our attention on Modaso for now, as the Modaso queen is very cooperative.