Yesterday I was in the bathroom that is under the temple and I looked in the clogged sink. There are a bunch of little things swimming around. I point it out to one of the workers and he says "fish". Yup, fish in sink under the temple...ok they were some kind of larvae but it seems better to think of them as fish.
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I looked closely at the water on the floor that my feet had been in all morning and, yup, chock full of "fish".
It turns out that the water is a nice combination of lavae, urine (the boys pee in it some times) and spit (the guy next to me refused to stop spitting in the water where we were standing in in our sandals). Lovely.
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The 3 sinks in the bathroom were stopped up for years because the pipes were buried in concrete and the only way to resolve it was to break the concrete. We found that the first sink had wood and wax jammed into it so it must never have worked. The others were clogged with miscellaneous "stuff".
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The septic tank for this bathroom is directly under it, so a brilliant contractor vented the tank to this enclosed area. Fumalicious.
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We broke concrete, dug out a trench, ran pipes for drainage and fumes and put in new lighting. Today, we will remove the bathroom doors and pour a new floor. Tommorow we will put the doors back in and paint.
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The kids use this bathroom during rainy season so fixing it will be a major improvement in their lives during June, July and August. Thanks to the recent donors for their donation for this project.
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