Estudio ambiental en el manejo de los residuos sólidos de la Quebrada Limas ubicada en la Localidad de Ciudad Bolívar de Bogotá D.C.

Abstract

he Colombian state establishes laws, decrees and resolutions that seek to preserve water bodies at the national level, being these of great importance for the biological functioning of the various ecosystems present in the country, therefore rules have been established such as Law 79 of 1986 which provides for the conservation of water and at the district level presents technical criteria that are taken into account in the land use plan of the capital where it contemplates the various environmental standards in force, The Environmental Management and Protection Zones (ZMPA) are established, in which ecological corridors and projection to water bodies are considered at least 30 meters in a parallel line on both sides of the creek in which the preservation and environmental care must be guaranteed according to article 103 of Decree 190 of 2004. However, in practice, the protection of the Quebrada Limas water course is not applied due to the different environmental and social affectations it presents, one of which is its location. Ciudad Bolivar is a sector with mining, industrial, commercial and domestic activities, where the Limas Creek passes through each of these sectors, which generates environmental impacts due to dumping, solid waste, encroachment and tree felling. These various anthropogenic activities generate several negative environmental impacts, but one of the most evident and least controlled is the dumping of solid waste in several sections along the 10.5 kilometers of the Limas Creek, where several critical points of indiscriminate dumping of debris can be seen. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct an environmental study in which information on plans and projects of the various entities involved in the creek, both in urban and rural areas, is presented. Once this information is obtained, integration processes with governmental entities and the community are generated to follow up and provide adequate treatment to the solid waste problems of the water body, which is the component to be addressed in the following work. Sanitary Engineering provides the necessary technical knowledge to determine and identify critical points by means of environmental impact matrices, which integrate environmental, social and economic factors. In addition to considering the relevant sanitary affectations which include vectors, basic sanitation, prevalence of contaminants, quantification of environmental damage and deterioration in the Principal Ecological Structure - PES.