Ron Weaver: June 2010 Archives

How time flies! 2010 came with its share of successes and challenges like any other year. One of our objectives for the New Year was to be engaged in more direct boreholes than subcontracts unlike in the previous year. In this, we have not been disappointed. We started off with a 200m depth borehole at an area called Kamulu on the Ruiru East Block which puts it in Thika District. The borehole was for an individual and was drilled between the 14^th and 17^th January 2010. We ended up drilling to 198.9m a successful borehole yielding 12m³.

Afterwards we headed to Naivasa – Musingini in Yatta District. This was a long awaited contract funded by the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). We had drilled two other boreholes in the area still with the CDF, both successful. However, a change of officers over time had caused a delay in the award of the said borehole. The community had waited since 2007 when we first placed our bid on the borehole in response to a tender invitation, probably even longer than that. Finally, by the grace of God, all doors that had closed up on this job seemed to open up and we were more than eager to undertake the job and help a community that had anxiously waited for this miracle. We successfully drilled the borehole between the 15^th and 17^th February 2010 to 160m and it yielded 3m³.

Masinga Hope Project at Kathukini – Masinga District is a ministry that reaches out to orphans and widows. The borehole was drilled from 22^nd to 25^th Feb 2010 to 102m depth. It yielded 1.8m³.

Kanginga Oasis Academy is a school in Mwingi District, Eastern Province. The borehole was drilled from 14^th – 15^th March 2010 at 102m depth yielding 12m³/hr.

The team later headed out to Nyamira District of Nyanza Province where a market had just been constructed at the Kebirigo town centre. Having water available at the market was crucial to ensure cleanliness and that hygiene standards were met. The borehole was drilled to 112m depth between the 12^th and 17^th April 2010 and yielded 1.2m³.

Kanthonzweni & Kakuyuni were the first subcontracted jobs in 2010. Kathonzweni was drilled from 23^rd to 30^th March 2010 to 200m but was dry. The first dry borehole in the year. Kakuyuni in Kangundo district of Eastern Province was drilled from 7^th to 8^th April 2010 at 138m and yielded 4m³.

In Bungoma, Western Province is Chemwa Children’s Home where we drilled a borehole from 21^st to 23^rd May 2010 to 80m³ and a yield of 1.2m³/hr.

The team took a short break in June to do repairs on the equipment. We are looking forward to several other boreholes in the next half with about four boreholes already scheduled up and many more coming up.