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Designing a standard sewage network for refugee camps

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Re: Designing a standard sewage network for refugee camps

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justinclift wrote: post #32
monaelkass wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Original author here: yes of course, this project should be improved and many other additional services wil be added. I will also study a camp with UDDT to have a less amount of sewage. The camps in my project contain free areas for agriculture, in addition to a school , a police station, and markets so the camp could be 90% independent. This project could be applied for any camp. It is basically studied to be applie…

This project could be applied for any camp It's a pity this wasn't available for the Fyre Festival organisers. ;)

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Re: Designing a standard sewage network for refugee camps

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rsync wrote: post #17
a5withtrrs wrote: post #3

Very interesting. I wonder if it then makes sense to run additional services such as power and drinking water parallel to those pipes for similar efficiency? I wonder if camping festivals and conferences such as CCC camp would benefit from this at all?

I’m not an expert, yet… But my habit has become: anytime you spend the time and effort to put any conduit in the ground… Put four more in. I have never been anything but happy and relieved that I have done this. Pipe is cheap. Digging is not. Edit: Do not put drinking water lines and sewage lines in the same trench.

Yes this is the case of buildings sewage system where the population increases each year. But in case of camps, we don't have a big flow, and the pipes used are the smallest in size.

Re: Designing a standard sewage network for refugee camps

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monaelkass wrote: post #36
rendall wrote: post #33

If I read the pipe maps correctly, it seems that the focus of the camp layout is on the sewage treatment facility, which is literally the center of the camp. In my opinion, the center of the camp has prominence of place, and should be rather a social center of some kind: gathering place, daycare, school, workshops, communal kitchen, sports facilities, something like that. A camp that elevate sewage treatment above al…

Intelligent comment, the layout 2 has the problem that you are talking about as the sewage is located in the center of the camp, but the layout 1 has a better design as it is half a circle and the sewage could be treated away from the tents accommodation and other activities.

Yes... except that with the semi circular layout, the sewage treatment is still in the only prominent place in the camp. All roads lead to the plant. If the city were an auditorium, the plant is squarely on stage. That should still be the place where people gather socially
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