Elaboración de un plan de manejo ambiental para el centro de acopio y enfriamiento de leche APROLEQ

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to develop an environmental management plan for the APROLEQ milk collection and cooling centre, located in the Quero canton. The study is a diagnosis of the pollution and environmental impact, therefore any treatments, repetitions are not considered, and does not fit to an experimental design, but responds to the analysis of wastewater and soil taken at the centre every 15 days to send them to the laboratory. The results indicate that the wastewater does not have a good treatment and spills to the surrounding land, with a high pollutant load, especially of total solids (542.75 mg / L to 2231.25 mg / L), COD (11,125 mg / L to 4027,250 mg / L) and BOD (11,125 mg / L to 4027,250 mg / L), even exceed the quality limits of the established standards. According to the check lines, the absence of an adequate treatment of wastewater is observed, since most of it converges to an open-air sediment that does not have a lid or solid traps to prevent them from spreading into the environment, as well as the lack of a suitable milk testing laboratory. On average, the evaluations of the impacts registered a value of 27.11 points; that is, the impacts do not degrade the ecosystem. In the final stage, it was verified that the estimates of the evaluation were equal to 18.01 points, which means that overall, the impacts presented a character of not being significant. Keywords: Environmental Management, Collection Centre, Environmental Impact, Residual Water,