Monthly internship report one

 At the beginning of first week internship in the company called Sidama National
regional state water, mine and energy bureau were mainly about submitting and
inscribeing internship entrance letter sent from Hawassa university.
 In the following days of the internship, I get a detailed and elaborated explanation of
the company’s vision, objective and a general explanation about the wondogenet
water supply project which I mainly participated in by the company assigned
supervisor Mr.Tesfahun Bayu, who is an office engineer.

Explanation of the project

 Type of project:- Wondogenet water supply project .
 Location:- Sidama Regional State, wondogenet woreda at UTM E-0456213, N-0775266 and
elevation of 1708m.
 Accessibility:- From Hawassa accessed through Hawassa- Monopl mazoria-
Wondogenet- wondogenet town deep well drilling site.
 Source:- Groundwater(deep well/borehole)
 Objective:- To supply clean and potable water for wondogenet communities
 Drilling history:- By using a drilling machine, a Tone rig with the technique of direct
mud rotary drilling method and cuttings are removed by the continuous blowing of
mud as the rotating bit penetrates the formation.
 In week three and four of the internship I started to learn more about the project
scheme and materials used in the project.

These are:-
 General steps of planning of water supply scheme
1) Demand analysis.
 Population projection
 Water demand analysis
2) Source investigation
 Surface
 Ground

3)Scheme design
 Intake structure, Treatment units, Transmission mains, Distribution lines, pump
and generator, Ancillary buildings
4) preparing specifications 5) scheme construction and supervision
6) scheme operation and maintenance
 Population projection
Pn= Pp (1 + r) n
 Where:- Pn = population at the target year. Pp= present population

r = Annual growth rate(%). n = design period(year)

 Source selection

Surface:- must meet at least the 20 years maximum day demand

Ground:- must be adequate to cover the maximum day mater demand for stage 1

 The project's source is a ground water source(deep well), so the next thing I learned is about
basic pump design preoaration.
 Basic pump design preparation.

Calculation of velocity

o The calculated velocity must be between 1 and 2 m/sec to avoid incrustation and
corrosion bursting of pipe. V = Q/A

Calculation of friction loss

o Calculated by using Hazen Williams equation

hf = 6.82 L/DD1.17 (v/CH)1.85

Calculation of total head loss

H = pump position + total friction loss + reservoir height + elevation difference

Finally:-

Calculation of the pump power

Pump power = 9.8 × Q × H/(1000 × efficiency)

. Then prepare the pump specification :- Head (m)

Discharge (l/sec)

Power (KW or HP)

Benefit I gained

 Site selection criteria

 Site preparation
 Equipments used for reservoir construction
 Basic pump design preparation

Challenges

 Transportation problem
 All the workers are always busy since the project is huge and vast. Due to this reason they
did not give enough time for the interns to treat efficiently.