Impactos ambientais no trecho urbano do Rio Salgado em Lavras da Mangabeira - CE.

Abstract

Nowadays, modern society has little concern with the environmental quality of its liquid bodies, thus their degradation is increasingly observed. This monograph aims to analyze the environmental impacts along the Salgado River, specifically in its urban stretch, the city of Lavras da Mangabeira-CE. In the study area, anthropic activities have caused negative environmental impacts, compromising soil conditions, local fauna and flora and the Salgado River itself. The activities responsible for the impacts concern the removal of riparian forest along the water body, urban waste disposal, agricultural practices, disordered urban growth and the lack of basic sanitation. These human actions end up causing increased runoff, erosion and sedimentation processes in the reservoir, contributing to siltation. The study is based on the deductive method and uses as research techniques, documentary research, bibliographic research and field trip, in August of this year, to perform data collection, in order to corroborate what the literature says. respect to the theme. The results confirm that the human activities carried out in the study area have contributed to its deterioration of the area's resources, in addition to compromising the quantity and quality of water stored by the river, harming the ecosystem as a whole, and the quality of human life. The negative environmental impacts that were identified: lack of basic sanitation, urban waste, removal of riparian forest, agricultural problems and disordered urban growth. This theme is of immense importance, because through it the population will be able to have a better knowledge about the environmental degradation that the Salgado River suffers and, thus, can take the necessary actions to minimize this serious problem resulting from human activities.