Ban Suk Construction

From Kimo Look on June 25, 2008:
It was a water project designed by a previous Peace Corps Engineer. The project received funding from the Canadian
embassy. I believe either he or I submitted the application for funding. In any case we got the funding shortly after I arrived at
my site and I was the engineer who managed its construction. The design was of a “classic” shoot spillway, based on the US
Army Corps of Engineers “Design of Small Dams” which Jim Ogata introduced us to when we arrived. It was in Amphur
Nakorn Phanom, in Ban Suk Chareon, which was about 10 minutes outside of town. So that is what I looked like almost 30
years ago.

I have no idea how PC got those pictures. I think a Thai friend of mine helped me take them. I wanted to document a
construction project so new volunteers could see what a project could be like. I used the pictures to create a “PR” picture
book of the construction effort and I gave to the PC office. They liked it so much that they made me make another copy for
the Canadian embassy in thanks for the funding (and hopes that a successful project would provide more funding for future PC
projects). I don’t know what happened to the embassy book, but the person (second in command at the office at the time)
was very pleased with it as it was something she could show to the new ambassador who would be coming into country in a
few weeks.

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