PROJECT OF THE RIVERS

For: Miguel Ángel Orjuela – Kenan Álvarez Cano

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

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADo_Medell%C3%ADn

http://periodistasenlacarrera08.blogspot.com/2009/05/desconta

minacion-del-rio-medellin-ha.html.

http://www.google.com.co/

http://co.yahoo.com/

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