AVALIAÇÃO DOS TEORES DE METAIS POTENCIALMENTE TÓXICOS NA MICROBACIA DO RIACHO BARRA GRANDE LOCALIZADA NO ENTORNO DO LIXÃO MUNICIPAL DA CIDADE DE IMPERATRIZ - MA.

Abstract

In the State of Maranhão, only three of the 217 municipalities have dump, the rest being made available only “dumpsters" as units of final disposal of solid waste. The municipality of Imperatriz-MA shares this reality, therefore, is for the municipal dump, which are sent every day all waste produced by the city, without any apparent worry or treatment. Starting this context, this study aimed to analyze the levels of potentially toxic metals, in the creek Barra Grande Watershed, a foremost tributary of the Tocantins River, located around the municipal dump, to evaluate the influence of the pollution effect of leach ate. Therefore, the methodology used was the type quantitative, exploratory and descriptive in nature. The main results showed that the leach ate currently generated is in methanogenic phase (ph = 8.3) and after infiltration and leaching processes, has contaminated streams and springs that are under its influence, and in view of the high concentration of Cu, Cr, Cd, Pb and Fe found in soil Cu and Cd and sediment chain Watershed.