Today (August 6, 2007) we focused on BSP. We were happy to see that the bore wells were dug and we quickly got to work putting the wells together. The first went smoothly and we finished it to start on the repair work. That went smoothly too until we discovered that even though the old pump and the new pump looked almost identical there were some features that the new pump had that the old hand pump lacked. One was the ability to easily remove the shaft from the pump. After an hour of trying different ideas and completely removed the old pump to have a better look at it we decided to just put in an entire replacement. Sadly we should have taken a moment to check the pipe lengths as we got it nearly assembled when we figured out our pipes were far too long to make it work. So after another hour we managed to free the old pump from the casing and but the new top on. Phew! The 2nd new pump was installed without a hitch and we scurried back to Ongole to pick up bottles for testing water quality tomorrow.
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