Avaliação ecotoxicológica de esgotos de redes coletoras de um campus universitário e da área urbana da cidade de Viçosa-MG e sua influência na qualidade dos corpos receptores

• Autor(a) principal: Aquino, Davi Santiago
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/3798
• topic: Ecotoxicologia; Esgoto doméstico; Qualidade da água; Ecotoxicology; Domestic sewage; Water Quality; CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA SANITARIA::SANEAMENTO AMBIENTAL

Wastewaters from domestic and other urban sources possess potential to degrade receiving water quality when discharged without adequate treatment. Furthermore, the presence of potentially toxic pollutants in these wastewaters increases risk of toxic effects to aquatic organisms in receiving water bodies. Wastewaters from the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV) with a population of about 19 thousand students, faculty and staff, as well as sanitary wastewaters from the central part of the city of Viçosa- MG, with a population of 72 thousand, were evaluated for their toxic potential using the microcrustaceans Daphnia similis and Ceriodaphnia dubia, and were also characterized with regard to physical and chemical parameters. Ecotoxicological and physicochemical effects of discharge of these wastewaters to surface waters, sediments and elutriates were also evaluated. Effluents presented minimum D. similis LC50 values of 23% and their discharge negatively affected quality of the university´s and city´s main water source. Contaminants were readily desorbed from receiving water sediments to elutriates but no acute or chronic toxicity was observed in sediment samples. These results demonstrate the importance of implementing a receiving water quality monitoring program and the need for greater wastewater source control, principally of effluents produced at the university. Greater political agility is also need to advance construction of a wastewater treatment plant that can serve the entire city of Viçosa, and guarantee protection of the quality of the city´s drinking water sources.