Rodriguez well
A Rodriguez well (or Rodwell) is a type of well envisioned by Swiss glaciologist Henri Bader of Rutgers University and developed by engineer Raul Rodriguez of the United States Army for economical harvesting of drinking water in polar areas. The project began as a subproject of the Army's Camp Century base in Greenland, created as a demonstration for affordable ice-cap military outposts or bases for scientific research. Background U.S. Army engineer Raúl Rodríguez-Torrent (1921-1985) was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico to Eugenio Rodríguez-Suárez and Genara Torrent y Becerra de Rodríguez. When Raúl Rodríguez Torrent was born about 1921, his father, Eugenio, was 34 and his mother, Genara, was 33. In 1940, he was 18 years old and lived in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, with his father, mother, 3 brothers, and 2 sisters. In 1940 he enlisted in the U.S. Army and later became an engineer at the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Developed at Camp Century in Greenland during the early 1960s, a Rodriguez Well (Rodwell), uses heat exchangers and a submersible pump to create a cavity deep under a glacier’s surface and cycle the heated water up an ice shaft, siphoning a portion of the flow