Posted by Mary Jo on February 2, 2016, 12:32 am 189.164.102.63
SEWER REPORT January 2016
A belated thank you to Jack Vooys, Linda Koenig, Craig Bell and Marcia Grothe for their donations.
Very good news! President Carlos of LaHuerta, today, agreed to pay for materials to make the gantry-hoist(a permanent structure) over the carcamo (sewer pumping station). This will hoist the pumps up and down for maintenance and repair. He also agreed to pay for plastic coated cyclone fencing material. We are responsible for the obra (worker´s construction). We are also responsible for cleaning, priming and painting the standing posts ready for the new fence material.
It was a bit more clearly explained today, exactly what does the municipality do. As far as I understand, their jobs are 1) to pay salaries of the garbage collectors, gas and maintenance of the trucks, as well as new trucks when needed. 2) Clean the streets and roadways 3) Create new paved roads as necessary. The road grader, back hoes and other road maintenance machines are slowly making their way south from the north end of the municipality to our end. We happen to be last in the long line of clean up from the hurricane. The machines are just beginning work in Arroyo Seco. They will get here.
Thanks to Joe Hostetler, we are opening a “store front” named FUTURE GREEN LAMANZANILLA. It is located opposite side of street from old Cafe Flores restaurant. It will be open only Thursdays from 4-6 pm. We will display the plans for the drenage as well as plans for future water control measures that have been designed by road experts. There will be a space for anyone to voice their questions, suggestions and requests for other progress measures to be done in LaManzanilla. We also learned that - by law- water is free to all people in Mexico. If we want to drill a well on our own property, we could have free use of that water. However, if we use water that has been pumped above ground for us and delivered to our door, it is no longer free. We need to pay for that service. So please, let us all go to Lupe´s bike shop and pay our annual fee for water. More information will be coming as we progress. Don´t forget to stop by and say “Hi” on Thursday 4-6 opposite side of street from old Cafe Flores.
When the La Huerta president was asking for votes he promised the main goal in La Manzanilla was the sewer. Now he "agrees to pay for materials" and he needs people signatures to do what he said it was the most important thing to do in town.
We're in Puerto Vallarta for a wedding and, driving back to our hotel tonight, I smelled some familiar smells (sewage) and realized that I have not smelled that eau de stink in La Manzanilla this year.
It was quite interesting to listen to ideas and display the sewer map and plans for road construction runoff designs. All this happened at the new store front "Future Green LaManzanilla". Located opposite side of street from old Cafe Flores. Open only Thursdays from 4 - 6. We also have the document available describing Engineers Without Borders plans and how we will be interfacing with them. Come on over and say Hi!
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Re: SEWER REPORT January 2016
Posted by Mary Jo on February 10, 2016, 8:54 am, in reply to "SEWER REPORT January 2016" 187.139.76.96
More good news! A fellow from the Federal Govt was working with Pepe, re the crocodiles. When he saw our store front, he asked to take pictures of our petition, our map, our scrolls with house numbers, our Engineers Without Borders proposal, etc. He said he would make a presentation to the Federal Government on our progress in FUTURA LAMAZANILLA VERDE "Future LaManzanilla Green". Who knows where that report will be seen? It sure wouldn´t hurt to have Federal Government interest in our project! Poco a poco!
Mary Jo grabbed me this morning to show me that a Jalisco State waterworks crew had arrived suddenly. They brought a new pump to replace the old pump that moves the sewer water a mile up the road to the treatment area in Los Ingenios. They also did some other repairs to a broken valve.
In the photo you can see the new pump, smaller than the old one but supposedly more efficient. The pump is located right next to the Hotel Caiman.