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Background

Loleta Elementary School offers its students a garden that is cared for by onsite staff. The school plans to also add a small fruit orchard in the near future. When the fall season arrives, the school offers the community a pumpkin patch, effectively generating an additional source of revenue. Both of these agricultural activities require continued irrigation. Rather than having irrigation water provided by the municipality, Loleta Elementary School wishes to install a rainwater catchment system to support their irrigation needs.

Problem statement

The objective of this project is to install a rainwater catchment system that will reduce the cost of irrigating the garden and pumpkin patch.

Project Evaluation Criteria

The following Criteria will be used to assess the success of this project. These criteria were chosen by the team and staff members from Loleta Elementary. The scale (1-10) represents the importance level of meeting the constraint of each listed criteria.

Criteria Constraints Weight
(1-10)
Safety Will not cause a danger to students or staff.
10
Functionality/Effectiveness Must provide enough rainwater to the garden to grow food for the school and drastically reduce the schools water bill.
10
Adaptability Be able to be modified if needed. Be able to build off of to install a water bottle filling station in the future.
7
Cost Supplies and materials must cost less than $1,000 US dollars.
2
Maintainability Be able to be kept in good condition by the experienced grounds keeper
5
Durability Be able to last several years with general cleaning and maintenance
8

Literature Review

This is a review of the available literature pertinent to our project.

Local Climate

Paragraph on the basics. [1]

Plastic Pipes and Water Containers

Short paragraph on the concerns.[2]

Roofing Materials

Short introduction to types of roofing. [3]

Local Governance & Planning

Loleta is not an incorporated city, therefore all development is regulated by Humboldt County Planning and Building Department. Developing water storage structures requires permits from local agencies depending on the size and scale. Water storage structures that exceed 5,000 gallons require a permit from the Humbodlt County Building Inspection Division.

Building Permits

Water storage structures that exceed 5,000 gallons require a permit from the Humbodlt County Building Inspection Division. Building Permits may take approximately 4 to 6 weeks to get approved.

Conditional Use Permits

If the water storage structure exceeds 50,000 gallons, than a Conditional Use Permit from the Humboldt County Planning Division but be acquired. A Conditional Use Permit may take approximately 4 to 6 months to get approved.[4] Fees and payments associated with the required permit varies depending on the storage size, number of referral agencies, and total number of permits. [5]

Gravity Fed Irrigation

Water Filtration

Filtration Type 1

Type 1 is a system that utilizes..... Make sure to include description [6], advantages and disadvantages, and/or have a comparison matrix.

Filtration Type 2

Type 2 is a system that utilizes..... Make sure to include description, advantages and disadvantages, and/or have a comparison matrix. [3]

Filtration Type 3

Type 3 is a system that utilizes..... Make sure to include description, advantages and disadvantages, and/or have a comparison matrix.

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  3. 3.0 3.1 This is an example of a named reference. You can use these named references to repeat citation content throughout the document.
  4. https://humboldtgov.org/documentcenter/view/6565
  5. //humboldtgov.org/documentcenter/view/51632
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