The Sludge settles

Wednesday 28th November

This morning we convened again at Practical Action’s offices:

Practical Action's Faridpur Office

I was shown a photo in the paper of the landowner giving over the rental agreement to the Major for this project (the municipality are paying the rent for the site), and told that my picture would be in there tomorrow! I dread to think which photo they'll use!

We then went to the site via a hardware shop / workshop that had welded us up a rake.

After lashing it to a bamboo shaft, we proceeded to rake over each bed in turn, taking the roof off and mixing the contents of each bed. This took about an hour in total. 

I made some qualitative observations, rather than taking moisture sensor readings.  All the beds were now much more pastey-soupy (I told you we were lacking adjectives) with thicker material at the end where the sludge had been initially poured in.  When we were taking the samples, it was much more stratified, with a foamy scum on top, a watery mid layer and a thick paste on the bottom.

Once we'd done raking, the weather station was repositioned, as there were concerns that it was being shielded by the trees.

New position for the weather station

View across the site