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Mid-Term Semester Update

So far this semester I have spent a majority of my time so far at the water treatment plant making modifications on the Pilot Plant. Work this semester has been particularly challenging as the pilot plant required many repairs. The first thing we did was drain the tank of the excess sludge that has been building up over the last year and a half. Then I worked on resizing the section holes and refitting all of the baffle connections. Then I designed and installed the added pressure device for the turbidity meters. My next work involved the new construction on the flow meter as well as installation of Leah's automated flow device. My recent work has been on designing and laying out the plan for the sedimentation tank. This has been difficult since the layout of the pilot plant is severely restricting our design options. I was involved in getting the plant up and running this week, and I hope to finalize our design plan this week, so that we can begin construction after spring break and get into data analysis.

Gantt Chart for David Mcevoy
|| Gantt Chart || Feb || || || March || || || || April || || || || || May || ||
|| Week: || 11 || 18 || 25 || 3 || 10 || 17 || 24 || 1 || 7 || 14 || 21 || 28 || 5 || 12 ||
| Channel Hole reconstruction | work | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Sludge Removal | work | work | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Baffle Re-fitting | | work | work | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Run Data Collection | | | | | | | work | work | work | work | work | work | work | work |
| Build Tube Settler support device | | | | | work | | | | | | | | | | |
| Re-rout turbidity inflow and out flow tubes | | | work | work | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Install Pressure head device to fix O2 saturation | | | work | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Do write up on pressure head design/construction | | | work | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Install Auto flow device to front end of the floc tank | | | work | work | work | | | | | | | | | | |
| Design Sed Tank | | | | | work | | work | work | | | | | | | |
| Incorporate Auto. Chem Feed into Pilot Plant | | work | work | work | work | | | | | | | | | | |
| Incorporate Sed Tank into Pilot Plant | | | | | work | | work | work | work | work | work | work | work | work |
| Add Obstruction to Flow Channels | | | | | | | | work | work | work | work | work | work | work |
| Improve testing procedure | | | | | | | | work | work | work | work | work | work | work |
| Assist with Data Analysis | | | | | | | | work | work | work | work | work | work | work |
| Write Sedimentation Report | | | | | | | | | | | | | work | work | work |
| Write Report on Tapered Flocculation | | | | | | | | | | | | | work | work | work |
| Write Report on Obstructions | | | | | | | | | | | | | work | work | work |