| Abstract |
The condominial system is a sanitation implementation model that uses the community participation as a key element on the development of the technical solution for the system. The model is based in the ideas that appropriate technology can only be generated with the participation of the community it tries to attend, and that only trough this participation is that sustainable solutions can be achieved. The resulting condominial system allows more flexibility of implementation, savings of up to 65% when compared to the costs of installing the conventional sewerage systems and more
operation and maintenance simplicity. The condominial system is an engineering solution based on the community participation. A condominial network can not be constructed without the community participation, because the community participation is what allows the system to be taken to its most positive solutions. The community participation allows a natural adaptation of the system to the most diverse existing physical and cultural conditions, which is a basic requirement in most of the periphery-urban areas of the cities, where the existent cultural situation plays a significant role in the success of a any project. Community participation is the basis of the condominial system. Through it, the proposals, ideas and solutions for the system to be implanted are put into practice, leading to its understanding and adequate use. It has the aim of promoting participation and understanding of the system’s installation process and its future operation. From an engineering point of view, in the condominial system the sewerage network is divided
in two parts, the public one, constituted by the main network, called Public Sewer, and the condominial one, represented by the Condominial Branch, which is considered the collective connection to the Public Sewer. The condominial branch basically attends what would be the smallest group of houses in a city. Called as quarter, block, or whatsoever named, in the condominial system this group of houses are linked to the main public network by a single condominial branch. In this way the public sewer only reaches the group houses, the block, in a way to receive the collective connection. It only touches the block instead of surrounding it as in the conventional system. [authors abstract]
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