Qualidade da água de três locais com potenciais fontes de contaminação no Rio Taquari, RS

Abstract

The Taquari Valley has several food industries and tanneries which release their effluents into the Taquari River, as well as a cemetery in a Permanent Preservation Area in Mucum town. This study performed physicochemical and microbiological analyses of water from before and after three Taquari River sites considered potentially polluting and compared the results of those samples. The chosen sites were a cemetery and a tannery in Mucum and a tannery next to a poultry processing plant located in Roca Sales. We analyzed pH, turbidity,