Evaluación de la calidad del agua del río vetas y la quebrada la baja a su paso por la zona minera en Santander

Abstract

The present work have the objective to evaluate of water Vetas river and the creek La Baja Santander department, due to mining activity above the area, at a set time of three months during the rainy season; using points of the monitoring network of the CDMB. By using water quality index (ICA), a tool that makes easier the interpretation of monitoring data quality, because they reduce a lot of parameters to a simple expression without studying the behavior of each variable individually. Allowing identify potential contamination problems. 4, 5 The quality indexes applied are two, the ICACOSU- IDEAM and CETESB index. The ICACOSU (Quality Index for Surface Water) proposed by the IDEAM in 2009 and the ICA-CETESB (Environmental Company of the State of Sao Paulo Brazil) used since 1975. In this project, a comparison of the results is also performed by the quality criteria established in decree 1594 of 1984 to use the resource, which provides detailed information on the quality of the water regarding its different uses.