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  • Client

    SANAA - Servicio Autónomo Nacional de Acueductos y Alcantarillados

  • Country

    Honduras

  • Location

    Dptos. de Yoro, Cortés y Atlantida

  • Area

    Water Management

  • Year

    1976-1977 / 1980-1984

Type of Work: Executive project, Direction and technical inspection of the work. 

Project calculation population: 160,000 inhabitants. Population and consumption studies. Choice of surface and underground water supply sources, chemical and bacteriological analyzes. Topography work. Preliminary draft of the intake and conduction works, the water purification treatment systems and the distribution network and storage reserves. Executive projects, including specifications, calculations, budgets and technical documentation for the call for bids for the works.

Inspections of drinking water works that include the purification of water from surface sources for the cities of La Ceiba, Puerto Cortés and El Progreso for a future population served by the works of 240,000 inhabitants.
The works to be inspected included in La Ceiba and Puerto Cortés: works for taking surface water from the river, lifting station, water treatment plant, conduction lines, storage tanks and distribution networks. The purification facilities totaled a capacity of 0.540 m³ / s.
In Progreso, the works included: well field, conduction lines, storage tank and distribution network.
For the three works, the following tasks were carried out in parallel: Project review, Work progress control, Scheduling, execution and control of field tests, Quality control and inspection of materials and equipment, in the factory and in works. Laboratory tests. Monthly measurement of the executed works and review of the works certificates, Reception and control of dispatch of equipment and materials, Provisional and definitive reception of the works. The hydroelectromechanical work has 3,500 m³ of concrete.