In order to mitigate the shortage of drinking water in the facilities of the Twenty-Seventh Brigade, based in the department of Putumayo, given the need to build a new well, it was decided to conduct the redistribution of the resource in the facility, and have the opportunity to use this unit as a platform to launch ground and air operations in this strategic area of the Colombian geography.
This is how the National Army, with Military Engineers and their capacity to drill and maintain deep wells, begins geologic studies, to determine the most appropriate site where the deep well would be drilled, what the diameter would be, determine the field geology, to extract water saturation from the soil.
In the same way, they conducted the electrical search to determine the saturated zones of the water AQUIFERS, that, at the end of the construction of the well, a pumping test was carried out to determine its flow.
Once all studies have been completed, soldiers of the Special Operations Engineer Battalion No.90, began, on September 20, 2021, the respective movements of the drilling equipment and material from the Military Fort of Tolemaida, in Nilo, Cundinamarca, to the municipality of Puerto Asís to begin with the drilling works that lasted two months.
To carry out this drilling, troops have state-of-the-art equipment such as the drilling ATLAS COPCO T3W40K and T3W70K HD, as well as technical and specialized personnel capable of overcoming each of the requirements of the project. It has an experience of more than 50 years, which has been transcending from generation to generation since 1964 when the well drilling company was created.
Source: press-National Army
