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A plan for Ms. Drizzle

GETTING EARTHQUAKE READY

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A PLAN FOR MS. DRIZZLE

KIMBERLY & KEONA

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PROBLEM STATEMENT

Mrs. Drizzles dilemma is to be prepared for an earthquake water shortage. She has decided to use water storage barrels to collect rainwater. We have been asked to make a water collection system and to deposit it into two barrels. This water storage system is important to californians because California is right over the San Andreas fault line which is why we get so many earthquakes. Major earthquakes can devastate cites and block them from water resources which is why many californians have turned to engineers to build a solution to collecting water. That's us, the engineers who have been turned to solve this very important dilemma.

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OUR ROOFTOP WATER CATCHMENT SYSTEM: A PROTOTYPE

After the three trials we decided to make the construction paper more sturdy because the paper would sometimes slide during the test trials.

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Pitfalls to avoid

Some problems to avoid are

  1. Not securing the collection system on correctly which would lead to the roof top falling off the home.
  2. Not putting an extra barrel to prevent the water barrel overflowing.

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Prototype Data

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System components

Water collected in barrel 1 (percentage)

Water collected in barrel 2 (percentage)

Trial 1

Tubes and tape.

17% full

0% full

Trial 2

Cardstock and tape

57% full

0% full

Trial 3

Cardstock and paper clips

67% full

67%full

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Proposed Rooftop Water Catchment System:

A Scale Drawing

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Catchment System Components

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Key Components

How they contribute to the success of the system

Construction Paper

Catch the rain falling and let it fall into the bucket

Tape

Attach the paper to the roof and keep the paper from falling.

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Shopping List:

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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HpI_9ViFzzE3ahLlpf8eosuSYemk2VNFRDwvElY5lIw/edit?usp=sharing

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