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New Water Lines for Asuncion!

shari - 10-17-2010 at 08:04 AM

After years of waiting and being told...soon...one of the two planned water lines have been laid. The project only took a week once they got started and is nearly done.

This line will service the new homes being built off the end of the main street towards pig beach where several Nomads have their casas. Just think guys...real water pressure!!!

We are next out here at the point...hmm...soon I guess.

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DENNIS - 10-17-2010 at 08:14 AM

OH OH..Not exactly the water line you had in mind, but rain is on the way, up here anyway. Could be a wet week.
I'm just going to throw away my calendar. Nothing makes sense anymore.

dtbushpilot - 10-17-2010 at 10:25 AM

Jill will be so excited when I tell her she can take a real shower. She was thinking she would have to take a bar of soap to the beach to bathe......dt

Thanks for your help getting it done shari, you da bomb...

[Edited on 10-17-2010 by dtbushpilot]

BMG - 10-17-2010 at 11:18 AM

Something else to look forward to on our return. It's been way, way too long since we've been there or our home in La Paz.

DianaT - 10-17-2010 at 01:33 PM

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Originally posted by BMG
Something else to look forward to on our return. It's been way, way too long since we've been there or our home in La Paz.


Since we are here, we had our friend with the water company tap in for the connection and we will be fully connected when the water begins through the pipe with should be Monday or Tuesday. Our presure in the house has been fine with only gravity feed, a little light outside at times, but never a real problem. However since the first pipe that was installed was meant to only service one then two houses, this should be better. The old main pipe was 1/2 inch and this is a 4 inch pipe.

I e-mailed Laurieboats and twogringos as our friend, Saul, said that all of you would need to hook up---another person said, no hurry, but, we did not want surprises later, The old pipe is still working, but who knows when that will change---much of it is now exposed. Saul asked that if we had not contacted our neighbors that we please do so.

It also gives a little idea of where some of the side streets are going to be----they only went a little ways down from the street behind your house on the other side of Casa Lila and down here, it stops behind our house. It does go out at least to where the furthest new house is on the other side of the road.

You will need to pay for the materials and labor to hook up---materials cost us about 170 pesos and Saul never charges enough for labor, and in our case it was really cheap as he did it before they buried the pipe and the pipe is very close to our old pipe. Oh, he also suggested that after we are hooked up that we change the filters on the tinacos---time to do that anyway.

Hope to see you soon. Drove out the road today and a few of the new repairs are beginning to break down a little, but they are still working-----so much NICER and faster. Started with the oil on the last of the dirt road so should be real soon.

They have been discussing this for a few years as some of it was supposed to be done before anymore homes were built---didn't happen, but this is an election year, so more infrastruction is being improved---







[Edited on 10-18-2010 by DianaT]

mcfez - 10-27-2010 at 03:22 PM

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Originally posted by shari
After years of waiting and being told...soon...one of the two planned water lines have been laid. The project only took a week once they got started and is nearly done.

This line will service the new homes being built off the end of the main street towards pig beach where several Nomads have their casas. Just think guys...real water pressure!!!

We are next out here at the point...hmm...soon I guess.


What the cost for a lot running down there?

We had water lines installed last year at our camp...what a difference it has made life.