Huisarochi Water Project  

We began this water project with a group of Navajo and Zuni teenagers from New Mexico. They came down to help start a water project in a small village called Huisarochi, a little over an hour from Creel. Marcos and I had visited this village last year to look at their water source, measure the distance from the village and the altitude of the spring above the village. We found out maybe a month later that we would not be able to work in this village safely. There was a major drug operation near where the spring was located. Marijuana was being grown in that area. We were very disappointed and wondered what we could do. We prayed and even planned to go back and start the project in December or January of next year during the winter when there would be no activity there.

Just recently we got word that there was going to be logging to the south of this village. This was very good news because with the extra traffic through the village there would be no "money crop" this year giving us the opportunity we had prayed for.

The spring we are using to supply water is located 2 kilometers (around 1 mile) up a canyon northeast of the village and at a vertical height difference of 250 feet. This is an ideal situation, we only have to construct a small dam in front of the spring outlet to pool the water. Black plastic well pipe will then be ran from there down to a large plastic water tank which will serve the village. Gravity will the the only requirement to power this system and we have a surplus of that here!

The teenagers spent their time with us gathering sand from the riverbed below. They had to use buckets and wheel-barrows to carry the sand up the side of a large hill overlooking the village. A concrete pad will be poured to support the large 3500 liter water tank that will supply the village with water. The last day was spent digging out the spring and bringing more sand in preparation to build the dam.

Marcos and I will continue the work to complete this project. Groups and individuals are than welcome to donate toward any of our water projects. You are also more than welcome to come and take part for yourselves in these awesome outreaches! For more photos of this outreach click here.

The tank will sit on a concrete pad above the village. Tubes can be connected

 to run to each house.

This is a close up of the above picture showing some of the Indians working their crops.

Some of the youth moving sand to build the concrete pad for the tank.

This is the spring, it is located a mile up a canyon above the village. It never

stops running, even during the dry season.

Digging out the spring in preparation to build the dam.

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