Environmental Impact Assessment: Case Study in Public Cemetery in the city of Queimadas – PB

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Pedro José Aleixo dos
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Gama, Claudeam Martins da, Cavalcante, Lívia Poliana Santana, Lima, Vera Lúcia Antunes de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Monografias Ambientais
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/remoa/article/view/18683
• topic: Environmental impact assessment; Cemetery; Necrochorume; Avaliação de impacto ambiental; Cemitério; Necrochorume

There is no denying the importance of the cemetery to society, whether cultural, spiritual, health point of view, however, because it is an enterprise that offers high risk of pollution to the environment and psychological impact on the population is a source of controversy and concern part of various sectors of society. Given this context, this study aims to describe and evaluate the environmental impacts from the burial activities carried out in the public cemetery in the municipality of Queimadas - PB. It was adopted as research tools: on-site visits, through which was conducted direct observation and photographic record of the cemetery under study as well as informal conversations with residents living near the project. The results were quantified through a Leopold Matrix adapted, which considered the physical, chemical, biological and anthropological study of the locality. Considering the burial activities in the municipal cemetery of the town of Queimadas, you can point out that even in adverse conditions in the physical realm, for example, when it comes to the form of the land, the implementation of its activities is considered viable, whereas in historical context of urbanization of the city in which it is located, its activities preceded the construction of apartment blocks and paving their surroundings, however, in this regard, it is considered as relevant the adoption of strategies for drainage and pretreatment necrochorume generated from the decomposition of buried deceased.