Evaluación de factibilidad para la instalación de unidades hidráulicas como reguladoras del flujo hídrico en los últimos siete kilómetros de cauce exorreico en la cuenca baja del Río Manzanares en Santa Marta, Colombia, durante el periodo 2018 - 2019

Abstract

The main purpose of this research was to create spaces for the evaluation and validation of the technical feasibility referring to the decrease in the Vulnerability of a Hydric Shortage Index for a portion of a territory in the low basin of the Manzanares river in Santa Marta, Colombia between 2018 and 2019. The study was supported within the modification of the hydric retention rates validating the feasibility in the installation of some hydraulic regulation units alongside the cross section of the main runoff channel, in the last seven kilometers of this exoreic basin. The experimental tests were made in a 1:50 scale modelo f the representative área, where, in accordance with the changes of the superficial runoff route to the hydraulic Shortage Index. The results were used to make projections over the área in study located in the Northwestern sector of Santa Marta (San Martin neighborhood) with these results it also was possible to extrapolate and project the capacity of hydric modification over the las kilometers of the principal exoreic channel in the mentioned basin. To reach the verification about the relevance of installing hydraulic units of regulation as a mean to reach favorable percentages in the decrease of the Vulnerability of a Hydric Shortage Indexa n integral research was developed, grounded in the previous knowledge of the significant conditions in the area of study at Punta Betin Hill inside the low basin of the Manzanares river.