Implementación de un plan de intervención ambiental en el cementerio Santa Rita de Casia en el Municipio de Tuta, Boyacá.

Abstract

The municipal institutions are responsible for providing service to the community and each of the needs that are presented, such as municipal parishes which provide the service of religious ceremonies, burial procedures, which are within the efforts provided by the cemetery, for this reason, Cemeteries should be governed by environmental policies for the mitigation of pollutants generated by funeral activities such as burials and exhumations. These processes have an impact on the environment through the generation of hazardous waste and its inadequate storage and collection management, the high vulnerability in the poor maintenance of cemetery facilities and the lack of updating of relevant documents. For this reason, it is of great importance to design an environmental intervention plan in order to adequately manage the waste generated within the facilities, taking into account plans such as the integrated management plan for waste generated in health care and other activities (PGIRASA) and the emergency operating plan (POE), since these are documents that help in complying with the requirements stipulated for these institutions. For the above mentioned in this work, it focuses on the design of an environmental intervention plan for the cemetery of Tuta, Boyacá, because this presents difficulty in the maintenance, control and execution of the activities carried out, assessing the current condition of the cemetery and thus compliance with environmental policies, as stipulated in the plans of PGIRASA, under the regulation of Resolution 1164 of 2002 and the EOP under the RAM and diamond methods, these documents being of great relevance for the proper functioning and reduction of environmental impacts in the cemetery. As a result, this research wishes to generate a positive impact to the community of the municipality and surrounding areas, as well as to the parish institution and the personnel in charge of working in these areas.