Week 1: Searching for the perfect spot to place our trap was the easy part. A year ago, a team by the name Aquaponics was working on a project and created two small ponds on biofilter island at reservoir No.3, to try and control water flow to filter out Phosphate, Nitrogen and E. Coli. After they finished the project, the ponds became a breeding ground for mosquitoes and the eggs hatched into larva. This was perfect for our project considering we needed to build our trap in a place with many mosquitoes.

​

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 2: After finding our spot to place the trap, it was time to start collecting our compost. For carbon, we picked wood chips from a pile we had at the front of the reservoir and for nitrogen we used algae, duck weed, grass clippings, leave, and other greenery. 

​

​

​

​

​

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 3: Our next step was to start clearing the area from things that were in the way, such as rocks ,twigs, and other small objects. After the area was cleared, we built a rock wall support to hold the pool in place. The pool was 4000 gallons and 4 feet in diameter. Once we finished making the wall, we placed the pool inside. We're using solar panels to power our trap so we needed to clear the area and make sure it was getting sunlight. The problem was that there was a tree that covered the whole area so we were going to have to cut off the breaches,so we took a pair of hedge sheers and started to cut them away.

​

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 4: Then it was time to start building! We took our base which is made up of a PVC pipe with the truck rotor attached at bottom and drilled our holes at the bottom of PVC and inserted our tubing. We then used zip ties to tighten and secure the tubing so the air would circulate nicely. We had already placed one layer of carbon by the time we were ready to place base inside the pool. We then continued to fill the pool with the rest of the compost that we layered, carbon then nitrogen and so on.

​

​