Avaliação das perspectivas socioeconômicas e ambientais do açude Grande na cidade de Cajazeiras/PB: um estudo de caso.

Abstract

This study was developed in order to diagnose the environmental impacts in the insertion area of urban surface reservoir Açude Grande in Cajazeiras city / PB and its surroundings. Among its objectives is to highlight environmental analysis through the perception of its users, detecting the level of the same information about the impacts generated by the occupation and anthropic intervention and characterization of water quality and its effects on human health, identifying the interest of them to participate in actions to improve the environmental quality of the area. For its realization was developed a literature search followed by the field study, where worked, using the following instruments for data collection: Questionnaire; free words association, with the terms inducers: Açude Grande, Environment, Collection and analysis of the waters of Açude Grande reservoir surface. This search revealed that around it dominates the occupation of buildings and the few bright areas are devoid of riparian vegetation and used for rural activities (agriculture and animal creation). Some of the interviewed did not have emotional relationships with the area, with regard to environmental quality showing disregard the importance of container to the environment in contrast show an appreciation for your landscape function. To characterize the water quality of the reservoir was performed to collect his loco and sequentially physico-chemical and microbiological, in the period 2009 October to 2010 February, supported in the legislation (CONAMA 357/05 and Decree 518/04) which found that some parameters are out of compliance for human consumption. It is concluded that the dam is in an area with high risk of pollution and / or contamination due to increasing urbanization that has been suffering, highlighting the need for interventions regarding the production of a recovery program of environmental quality in the area of their surroundings, ranging from the recovery of riparian vegetation to the deployment of permanent programs of Environmental Education, rooted in the pursuit of environmental awareness and exercise their rights as citizens.