Collection

2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm; Thomas Merrill; William Riddell

are examples of how specific teams met this criterion for success: • “Rain-Catch Irrigation System.” The team chose to focus on a particular village in The Gambia, where most of the population is comprised of subsistence farmers and essentially all of the annual rainfall occurs within a 4-5 month period. The team identified a community building with a corrugated metal roof suitable for a gutter system, researched costs of specific building materials in The Gambia, sized and costed a concrete water storage facility, presented research regarding the time and water required to grow pumpkins and squash, and quantified the number of acres that could be irrigated during the dry season for this length of