Water for Wildlife
Water Road
Project
In mid-February 2014, the Water
for Wildlife group headed by Cliff
McDonald had a three-day project
to repair two drinkers in the thirsty
desert of southern California. A
total of 28 volunteers worked on the
project, with some staying the entire
three days and others driving out for
a day.
In McDonald’s words, “We
managed to totally complete two
drinkers along with tortoise ramps.
On another we removed tar from all
the cracks, then applied the rapidset mortar as well as removing all
the cracked concrete from the tank
cover just as the cover was about to
cave in. Later we will return to this
drinker and construct another cover
consisting of rebar, concrete wire and
about 60 bags of concrete — lots of
work.
Drinker before repair.
“The volunteers also cleaned
out two holding tanks, which consisted of grinding a