The USAID/Washington through its Office of Health requested the Water and Sanitation for Health (WASH) Project to provide technical assistance for the USAID Mission to the Dominican Republic and the State Secretariate for Public Health and Social Assistance (SESPAS). This technical as assistance consisted of a field survey and inspection and analysis of the current status of the locally manufactured "pull-through-the-base" type modified AID design hand pump installed in the Dominican Republic under Health Sector Loan II the Project. AID/Washington issued Amendment Two of Order of Technical Direction (OTD) No. 143 to Camp Dresser and McKee, Inc. (CDM), an environmental engineering company that operates AID's centrally-funded WASH Project. The Engineering Experiment Station at the Georgia Institute of Technology, authorized by CDM, was assigned to conduct the field work.