Thursday, February 24, 2011

Professional Chapter Meeting | 2/23/11 |6:30-9:00 PM

Bolivia Meeting

Official project status

Try to convince EWB to accept the new project under the professional chapter

Attach the project to the EWB UNM project

Any assessment/implementation will be under UNM instead of the professional chapter

Assessment trip limited to 7 maximum

Limits traveling members to students vs professionals

Should the project be instated under the professional or student chapter

Lots more work

Need to make officers to control and organize the project

More fundraising

How will the project help

More research needs to be done to prioritize the project specifications

Need to know:

What do they want

What do they need

What can we do

How do we deal with the politics of the area

Traveling plans

How many students and professionals can travel

General Meeting - 7:40

Introductions

Treasury/ fundraising report

Membership report

17 paid members

Some technical difficulties for people paying dues from a third party organization

Meeting schedules - 8:00

3rd Wednesday of every month

3/16, 4/20, 5/18, 6/15, 7/20

Start 6:30- 7:00 pm end around 8:00 pm

With snacks

1-2 hour meeting

1 hour general

1 hour project meetings

Bolivia meetings - biweekly

2/23 and on

Ramah Meetings

will be announced as needed

Ramah - 8:05

Stock wells/private wells hydrochemistry project

Log and test new locations for new wells

Solar project

Gordon's project

Oso Vista Ranch Project

Solar power for educationalpurposes

Need fundraising for system

Pine hill school

Demo system

Hoogan lights

New set of batteries for the system

Need system specs

Amp hours

Load

Watts

Need fundraising

Solar Powered Water Treatment

Education Project

Organized through Sandia

8th grade class

March 9th

Chemistry of groundwater

March 24

Surface water & well sampling field trip

April 4

Biology of drinking water

Water treatment plant field trip

April 28

Science fair

May 4

Well sampling field trip

Need:

Volunteers to help out

Need background checks

To consider air quality demonstrations

Suggested by tribal EPA member

Greenhouse/water harvesting system

Have frames for 3 greenhouses 100x30ft

Need water harvesting system for greenhouse

What kind of plants can be grown in the greenhouse

How much water can rain catchment provide for how many plants

To use solar panels or not

Much more expensive

How to design a stable system

Irrigation system

Design a pipe and pump system

Need to fundraise for this project

Water distribution project

To distribute water for the community

Sewage lagoon

Needs to be expanded

New system needs to be design

Pine hill school well #2

High arsenic + radium

Need to figure out how to fix these wells for the school given the available resources

Nepal

Considering working with a different village

Sabhung (spelling?)

Previous village

Community contribution may not be working

Continuation of working with this community is under consideration

Assessment Trip

Fall or early spring

Project meetings to be announced pending more information

Politics

Still may be unsafe for travel

Treasury Report - 8:20

Volunteer Positions - 8:25

Fundraising co-chair

Justin

Meeting coordinator

Health and safety officer

Vance

Education coordinator

Membership co-chair

Regional conference chair

Would like someone to organize hosting a regional conference

Oct/Nov 2011

Host event in Albuquerque

Website Update - 8:30

Administrator and project manager accounts have been made

Accounts give access to members to contribute to the website of their own accord

Website will be much more up to date with current events

Please keep an eye on the website for more information on projects and upcoming meetings!

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