I am conscious that I haven’t
written a lot on this blog on the work that I do here in Afghanistan, I work as
a Construction Manager for Copenhagen Contractors who provide Construction,
Facilities & Maintenance Services in support of the Military on three
different Bases here in Afghanistan- we provide services to a number of
Coalition Partners including the Australian Defence Forces at Tarin Kowt.
In early February just past,
we had unprecedented snow and flooding at Tarin Kowt which is located in a
valley in the mountains in Uruzgan, and the melting snow and incessant rains
over around February 1st last created extensive flooding with the
base to such an extent that it caused so much damage to the Base’s Sewerage
Pumping Station (constructed by us), that the entire Pump Station literally
floated out of the ground, severing the inlet and outlet sewer pipes and
literally bringing the entire sewage system on base to a halt, which serves
some 6000 people.
Emergency Meetings were
called, and we were brought in to provide emergency rectification works as we
know the system best, We ended up putting our entire Team to work on the
emergency for four continuous days including night time and worked very closely
with the Army and Air Force to put the system operational.
It was a fantastic example of
teamwork and everyone pulling together, including some of our Afghan
Contractors who supply us with building material who worked over time to
rectify the problems.
A solution was also devised in
co-operation with out Military Partners to put in place measures to prevent a reoccurrence
next year.
Classic Teamwork !!
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