Relevamiento y plan de mitigación sobre un canal receptor de aguas residuales domésticas en Sarmiento, Chubut

Abstract

Domestic wastewater, an inherent product of the development of human activities, has the potential to cause damage to the environment and communities when it is dumped outside the limits permissible by law; generating adverse effects such as loss of native biodiversity and pathologies in the population. In the town of Sarmiento, Chubut, the wastewater from the sewage effluent treatment plant is discharged into a non-impermeable channel. Said canal flows through private land of which some of its owners make use of canal water to irrigate crops and gardens or drink cattle. Through the implementation of field surveys, it was possible to discover and/or quantify the main environmental impacts that affect the canal, as well as their sources. A mitigation plan was proposed for the main environmental impacts found in the canal.