Site Identification, Survey, and Feasibility Study Training

This is hands-on practitioner training: participants leave able to find a candidate site, measure it correctly, and turn the measurements into a defensible pre-feasibility judgement — the skill set behind site assessment, survey and feasibility work.

Training follows the field sequence used by experienced scouting programmes: map and catchment work, a site walkover covering intake feasibility and the siting of canal, forebay and penstock, and demand-survey interviewing in a real community. Participants practise each flow method — current meter, bucket-and-stopwatch and float — and each head method — spirit level, clinometer and tape, altimeter or GPS, and the engineer's level — using standard recording formats. Results are plotted into a first flow duration curve, power and cost estimates, and a written site report. Accuracy is taught honestly: a clinometer head reading carries a few percent of error, and a single wet-season flow measurement will oversell a site — dry-season verification is mandatory.

• Site scouting and layout walkover exercises
• Demand survey practice in a real community
• Flow measurement: meter, bucket and float methods
• Head measurement: level, clinometer, GPS / altimeter
• Power, cost and viability calculations; report writing

What you receive: a real site dossier produced by each participant or team — survey forms, measurements, calculations, a layout sketch and a short feasibility report on the training site — plus the manuals and formats to reuse, and a trainer assessment.

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