Environmental Internship Program - 2019 Booklet

PROJECT TITLE
The Implementation of a
Gravity-Fed Potable
Water System in
Pusunchás, Perú
ORGANIZATION(S)
Engineers Without
Borders (EWB),
Princeton Chapter, Peru
LOCATION(S)
Otuzco, Peru
MENTOR(S)
Peter Jaffe,
William L. Knapp ’47
Professor of Civil
Engineering,
Professor of Civil
and Environmental
Engineering,
Princeton University;
Corrie Kavanaugh,
Technical Mentor, EWB;
Josh Umansky,
Technical Mentor, EWB
Kristen Ahner ’22
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
Certificate: Applied and Computational Mathematics
Yulissa Cantero ’21
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
Sydney Hsu ’21
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
Certificates: History and the Practice of Diplomacy, Robotics and Intelligent Systems
Pranav Iyer ’22
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
Linda Pucurimay ’21
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Riley Wagner ’20
CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
Certificate: Sustainable Energy
Claire Wayner ’22
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Certificates: Environmental Studies, Sustainable Energy, Urban Studies
The Princeton Engineers Without Borders-Perú
team finalized the implementation of a gravityfed
water system in Pusunchás, Perú, which
provides the rural community with reliable
access to potable water. The project collects water
from a mountain spring and brings it via a
3-kilometer conduction line to a centralized
reservoir tank. From the reservoir, three major
distribution lines deliver that water directly to
tap stands placed at each household. In August,
seven students traveled for four weeks to connect
the remaining houses to the distribution
network, instruct the community water council
on proper system maintenance, make
improvements to the source capture, and install a
chlorination tank at the reservoir tank. We also
took time to visit nearby communities in search
of a new project that the team will return to Perú
in summer 2020 to assess. The team also will
travel back to Pusunchás to ensure that the
project is functioning properly and that the
community has the resources and knowledge to
maintain the water system once our partnership
has ended.
WATER AND HEALTH
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