Integrated environmental assesment of Santos estuarine system s disposal site and adjancent zones / Diagnostico ambiental integrado da area de influencia do descarte do material dragado do estuario de Santos

AUTOR(ES)

Luis Renato Bastos Lia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The Atlantic Forest coastal plain which surrounds the city of Santos in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, has a great economic importance, principally due to the port of Santos, the largest in Latin America, and the Cubatão industrial complex. The region’s estuary has been polluted by multiple contaminant sources for decades, due to industrial, portuary and human activities. The aim of this work is to develop and apply an integrated method of environmental assessment of the dredging disposal site in Santos estuarine system (SES). Samples of water and sediment were collected at nine monitoring stations in order to perform physical, chemical and ecotoxicological analyses. One of the stations is at the actual disposal site, while the others are situated along the shorelines of the cities of Praia Grande, Santos, Guarujá and Bertioga. The dredging activities in the Piaçaguera channel, part of SES, started between the two sampling campaigns. The results are compared with Brazilian and foreign guidelines for sediment and water quality. In one of the campaigns, the benthic community was also analysed. The results were integrated by different methods including multivariated statistical analysis. The application of Factor Analysis explained the relationship between the chemical contaminants and the observed biological responses. It was confirmed that an integrated approach with different tools is necessary to the characterization of polluted sites. It was possible to propose a diagnosis method for the region studied and contribute to the pollution control and environment assessment performed by the companies involved as well as state and federal environmental organizations.

ASSUNTO(S)

toxicologia impacto ambiental dragagem analise multivariada environmental assessment ecotoxicology dredging mata atlantica multivariated analysis atlantic forest coast poluição

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