Weekly Meeting Location and Time:
Campus Instructional Facility 3018 | Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30PM
Community Engineering Corps
The CE Corps is a domestic segment of EWB with the mission to bring “underserved communities and volunteer engineers together to advance local infrastructure solutions in the United States”. It is an alliance with Engineers Without Borders-USA, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Water Works Association. Currently, the CE Corps team at the UIUC chapter is working on the Woodford Project.
About the Community
The community, located in rural Illinois, has 333 residents, the majority of whom are either elderly on fixed incomes, or low-income residents.
Project Overview
A rural community in Woodford County, IL, is seeking to upgrade its water treatment plant (WTP) facility. The system, which has been operating since the late 1800s, received its most recent upgrade in the 1970s. The water system has a total of 167 connections to village households, serving the entire community.
The community faces high arsenic and tannin content in their potable water. Therefore, the water treatment plant is not functioning properly. Currently, their WTP has experienced extensive rusting on the pipes, and the filter media in the WTP sand filters is lost when the WTP is backwashed. Therefore, a replacement of the WTP is necessary for the village, so the UIUC chapter will provide WTP blueprints, cost estimates, and a Preliminary Engineering Report (PER). The village will then use these deliverables to apply for funding from the USDA for a new WTP.
Semester Goals
In the Fall 2025 semester, we are aiming to see the completion of engineering documentation for the project. Some specific targets include:
- Finalize the work plan this semester and begin our work on the preliminary engineering report (PER), which is the scope of our project.
- Do Woodford fundraisers and social to build team bonds and gain funds to travel.
Contact Us
Current Project Lead(s): Krish Parekh, Atticus Flassing
Project Email: ewb.cecorps.uiuc@gmail.com
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions!
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