Diseño de una alternativa para mejorar la potabilización y distribución de agua en el actual acueducto comunitario La Concepción en Villavicencio, Meta

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to design an alternative to improve water purification and distribution based on the diagnosis of the current state of the water system of the community aqueduct La Concepción, located in the municipality of Villavicencio, Meta, through a quantitative, descriptive, exploratory, non-experimental methodology. For this purpose, base information was collected on the community aqueduct which was complemented through field work in order to develop the diagnosis of the drinking water treatment plant and the simulation in static period of the distribution network in Epanet 2.0.12 given the current operating conditions of the system, all the above to be compared with the provisions of the “Reglamento Técnico para el Sector de Agua Potable y Saneamiento Básico RAS 2017” and resolution 2115 of 2007. As main findings, it was evidenced that approximately 15.40 l/s is being supplied to the population, being above what is theoretically necessary (7.04 l/s) to supply the population. For its part, the water treatment plant has the capacity to treat 7 l/s, it is functional and is out of service as it does not respond to the current demand of the hamlet in addition to not knowing how to operate, as for the distribution network the simulation reflects that it presents low pressures in the lower areas of the sector and pipe diameters below the recommended in article 63 of the RAS 2017. It is concluded that the community aqueduct requires the installation of meters to regulate the necessary flow to be supplied, increase the pipe diameter in the low-pressure areas. A possible alternative is proposed to improve water purification since only one sand trap is used.