(Second and last part)
Published in Diario de Colima
On August 12, 2007 Miguel Chavez
MICHEL *
In my previous collaboration I referred to the primary sources of drinking water supply for three decades provided the inhabitants of the ranch then (1930) and later the people of Armory (1935). To recap, first was the "wheel" better known as the "well of the slope" that was located by the gap nozzles present road to the resort "Paradise." Then, to cater to the victims of the tsunami of 1932 they supplemented the supply from the station "Villegas" through railroad boxcars, concluding my comments, with the review of the tentative budget by gravity from the eye of water " green pond "(1936 - 1961).
also recounts the visionary spirit of our ancestors, that organized by Professor Ricardo Guzmán Nava, with pick and shovel, worked on the excavations for the laying of the pipeline from the power supply to the new population center. Similarly, review, in gratitude for their efforts, the enthusiastic participation of all inhabitants in the dam of "green puddle." Since then, it was a step in the national education system, which they called "socialist education", in which rural teachers were required to reside in communities that worked and consequently to live together, share and engage with the problems of that environment and if necessary, direct, drive and / or championing the great demands of society.
As my friend the engineer Alcocer Enrique Acevedo, described how, as a result of the cyclone of 1959, the high water line broke down the water system drive from the railway bridge to its source of supply (pond green). Finally, in recognition of his helpful obsequious politeness and effort, I mentioned, the tasks that I personally headed to repair the damage, and thereby restore service with exceptional speed.
After the rehabilitation of the pipeline (1959) blocked by the force of the currents flowing river, the authorities of Manzanillo, Colima, adding to concerns of neighbors interested in the new issue in this matter exteriorized local officials and let summarized as follows:
One: The water system of the pond Green was inadequate to supply a growing population, as had been designed to provide service to a location no more than three thousand people and by the end of that decade (1959), demanded the service about six thousand beneficiaries.
Two: The dam of "green pool", which was the source of supply of drinking water, practices and lifestyles of residents, it became tradition to use it as usual spa town and surrounding areas, also served as a natural trough of beasts and cattle, so that, for health issues, questioning the quality of water.
Given these facts, the engineer Alcocer Enrique Acevedo, who served as Resident General of Works of the Ministry of Water Resources in Tecoman, with the meticulousness that characterizes it, in the month of November 1959 prepared and sent to Mexico City, for the corresponding authorization and budget studies aimed at the well drilling and construction of a storage tank to increase pressure the water, thus, as I expressed it, "no longer depend on pond water green. At that time Armory was relatively small, with a well was more than enough. "
With these procedures, in 1960, the Directorate General of Water and Sewerage Department of Water Resources approved the construction of the work and immediately referred to the engineer Arturo Noyola Queen was in the state manager of the Secretariat General turned his instructions, so that the team was in Tecoman began drilling the well in front of the main garden in the rear of the existing library "Year of Juarez" (Position north of City Hall).
On these facts, Alcocer Enrique Acevedo engineer told me: "Not if you remember. How old are you? No, no, you were a child. In addition to the well, projected from west to east, along Calle Colima, a driveline to the elevated tank that we built on the hill of the cross is a very good capacity tank which has central columns, capitals where will the girders were built in quake-proof and they put the tiles. "
And he continued: "The tank was designed to store and simultaneously applying pressure, because if you have a tank top, makes water pressure and without using a lot of horsepower, after supplying household connections, the motor raises the water to any water tank. Therefore, we build with the dual purpose of storing and increase water pressure. The system worked through a check valve, these valves work as follows: If the bottom up, there's pressure valve opens: In other words, when there is less demand for water increases the pressure to raise the tank, where it is stored until subsequent requests. "
no major breaks, extended his comments: "to build the tank, I wear a D9 tractor Tecomán to Armory to be done, from north to south, the access road and the esplanade where we built the storage tank. All material upload it that way. I trace the gap at the top, next to the chapel. The road starts at the end of the street where Gregorio Torres Quintero bakeries were located, I have understood that today, there is a chapel. "
"To use water purification chlorination system based on chlorine gas, which was the most innovative for that time. Those who knew the house we built on the side of the well, where we put the controls starting, stopping and chlorination, to be agreed, we left some holes down (windows) to facilitate in case of leakage, gas leakage through the vents. Chlorine gas is heavier than air, therefore, when there are leaks, the gas is going to the bottom, hence, to avoid confinement windows were placed where the gas escaped "
" Everything was done between 1960 and 1961. In doing so, cancel the supply of the green puddle deep well supplies. To connect the new with the old network system, by the way, steel pipes, feeders were two branches, one north and one south of the population. This new drinking water system Armory was opened personally by the President Adolfo licensed López Mateos. "(Concludes the quote).
The period covered by the tsunami of Cuyutlán, registered on June 22, 1932 (excess salt), the cyclone of October 27, 1959 (in fresh water), which naively, in all my writings, I call "foundation stage", my father Miguel Chavez Vega, said, that was a very nice where "we all knew and we relied each other." We were, he insisted, "a large family, with strengths, weaknesses and different names, which, with prudence and respect, we accepted what we were and we cordially protected us. The word committed, had a lot. " For its part, my good friend Eduardo Michel Fontana recalled with nostalgia the name: "what time was."
Certainly at this stage of our community life, knowingly, I give the category of "foundational" because the evidence I illustrate in this space of time, very daring, pretty drive and plenty of goals related strength, our elders, to work and visionary spirit were germinated seeds of progress.
Indeed, in this cycle (1932 - 1959) in everyday life that elapses between the three phenomena of nature who harassed the coastal plain with abundant water salt (tidal wave of 1932) and a lot of fresh water (hurricanes of 1944 and 1959), alleging the distribution of land, surface and corresponding ejidos aparcelamiento; are settled irrigation canals and begin perennial crops to then Armory rancheria is given the category of people (1935) and thus planned urban infrastructure (taps, sidewalks and cobbled streets) and works his urban landscape (wood and tile portals).
garden was build, the church, the cemetery, three schools (two elementary schools and a college), the railway station and central ridges on their streets, the road is built Colima - Manzanillo, are provided potable water services through the system outlined green pond and through the cooperative installed a modest light plant and erect a compound film (Film Victoria). In summary, our parents, with imaginative effort, built a village and transform these once barren land into an orchard.
In these tasks, it is fair to acknowledge the commendable work of agency and coordination of efforts made in due course, the local authorities. Among them, committed citizens who served as president of the H. Armory Municipal Board: Sebastian Saucedo Gervasio (1935), Eduardo Michel Michel (1935) and (1939), Apollonius Wonder Brambila (1936) and (1938), Gerardo Pérez Ruelas (1937), Ramon M. Ramírez (1937), Luis Gómez Michel, (1937) and (1938), Jose Villanueva (1937), Hilario López Dueñas (1939), Felipe Ramirez Victoria (1939), and J. Felix Torres Curiel (1939).
the next two decades, continued his example: Daniel M. Silva (1940), Ricardo Anguiano Cortez (1941), J. Jesus Parra Messina (1942), Colonel Manuel Muñoz Salazar (1943-1946), Leonardo Silva Jaramillo (1946 - 1949), Pedro Virgin Alcaraz (1949 - 1951), Pérez Calvillo Bras (1951), Martiniano Escobar Robles (1951), Basil Pérez Calvillo (1951 -1952), Manuel Toscano Barajas (1952), David Toscano Barajas (1953), Antonio Enciso Rojas (1953 - 1954), Jose Ruelas Ramírez (1955), Professor Benjamin Pineda Gutierrez (1956), Joseph C. Armour (1956 - 1958), Professor Valente Jiménez Delgado (1959), Francisco Andrade Colmenares (1959) and Crispin Campos Enciso (1955) and (1960-1961).
periods of Messrs. J. Jesus Vaca Farias (1962 - 1964) and Michel Eusebio Rincon (1965 -1967) correspond to another phase of our local history: the "steady progress" in which laid the foundation Armory to achieve the coveted Township (1967).
* The author is a member of the State Council of the Chronicle, Colima Association of Journalists and Writers, and Writers' Association of Cities and Towns of the State of Colima.
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