PROYECT OF THE RIVERS

For: Miguel Ángel Orjuela – Kenan Álvarez

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RIVER MEDELLIN

The river Medellin or river Bores it is a Colombian

river that crosses the city of Medellin and his

metropolitan area. It is born to 3100 msnm in the

High place of San Miguel, in the municipality of

Caldas, to the south of the Valley of Bore, and 100

km later, already with the name of Rio Porce, it spills

his waters to the Rio Nechí.

MAP

REASONS OF THE POLLUTION

The principal reasons are:

The human waste.

The textile mills.

The factories that stay next to the river.

“PLANTA SAN FERNANDO”

This one, located in Itagüí's municipality, is the

manager of processing the waters that come even

there, to purify them, them to become oxygenated

and to return them to the environment, to achieve

that little by little the pollution is diminished of the

one that is a victim this river that it crosses to the

city.

«PLANTA SAN FERNANDO»

PROCESS OF DECONTAMINATION

The pollution of the water decides by means of two

parameters, one is the Biochemical Demand of

Oxygen (DBO), by means of which there measures

up indirectly the quantity of organic biodegradable

present matter in the water, which allows to know

the level of oxygen that it contains: to minor quantity

of oxygen, more contaminated the water is.

IMAGE

MESSAGE

IMAGE OF THE RIVER MEDELLIN IN DECEMBER

CYBERGRAFÍA

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