Metals in sediments of São Paulo State reservoirs: subsidy to decision making through geostatistical and ecotoxicological approaches

• Grant number: 16/24528-2
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: May 01, 2017
• End date: April 30, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Sanitary Engineering - Water Resources
• Principal Investigator: Marcelo Luiz Martins Pompêo
• Grantee: Marcelo Luiz Martins Pompêo
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Ana Lúcia Brandimarte ; Marisa Dantas Bitencourt Pereira ; Sheila Cardoso da Silva ; Viviane Moschini Carlos

Abstract

The monitoring and management of aquatic organisms are fundamental to ensure the sustainability of freshwater bodies, especially in reservoirs. In Brazil there are some normative related to the obligatory of cyanobacteria and coliforms monitoring, but not of macrophytes, for example. A monitoring plan has to monitor changes in water and sediment quality, and a management program has to plan practical actions necessary to ensure the quality for current and future uses of a reservoir as well as to maintain its ecosystem services. The aims of this project is to evaluate the horizontal spatial heterogeneity of metals concentrations in surface sediments of some São Paulo State reservoirs, especially copper, as well as their total stock in the sediment, under the premises of geostatistics. In this way, the bathymetric map and the morphometric magnitudes of the studied reservoirs (Guarapiranga, Rio Grande arm - Billings complex, Itupararanga, Broa and Paiva Castro) will be obtained. Subsequently, working in a GIS, based on the determined metal concentrations, now supported by ecotoxicology, criteria will be developed that will allow to pass from quantitative to qualitative aspect and spatially define zones of different sediment qualities, based on different toxicity potentials to biota. Differences are expected between the reservoirs and their biota (phytoplankton and zooplankton also studied), due to the significant amounts of copper sulphate and hydrogen peroxide applied in Rio Grande and Guarapiranga reservoirs, in comparison with others reservoirs. The data collected will also support discussions about water quality management program, in particular the use of algicides, now endorsed by Conama Resolution 467, published in 2015, which regulates the use of physical, chemical and biological processes, such as algicides, to control the disordered or undesirable growth of organisms of the flora and fauna giving also other measures. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BIAMONT-ROJAS, IVAN EDWARD; CARDOSO-SILVA, SHEILA; LOPES FIGUEIRA, RUBENS CESAR; MI KIM, BIANCA SUNG; ALFARO-TAPIA, RENE; POMPEO, MARCELO. Spatial distribution of arsenic and metals suggest a high ecotoxicological potential in Puno Bay, Lake Titicaca, Peru. Science of The Total Environment, v. 871, p. 12-pg., 2023-05-01. (16/24528-2, 19/10845-4)

POMPEO, MARCELO; MOSCHINI-CARLOS, VIVIANE; BITENCOURT, MARISA DANTAS; SORIA-PERPINYA, XAVIER; VICENTE, EDUARDO; DELEGIDO, JESUS. Water quality assessment using Sentinel-2 imagery with estimates of chlorophyll a, Secchi disk depth, and Cyanobacteria cell number: the Cantareira System reservoirs (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Environmental Science and Pollution Research, v. 28, n. 26, SI, p. 34990-35011, JUL 2021. (16/24528-2, 16/17266-1, 19/10845-4)

BIAMONT-ROJAS, IVAN EDWARD; CARDOSO-SILVA, SHEILA; BITENCOURT, MARISA DANTAS; ALVES DOS SANTOS, ANDRE CORDEIRO; MOSCHINI-CARLOS, VIVIANE; ROSA, ANDRE HENRIQUE; POMPEO, MARCELO. Ecotoxicology and geostatistical techniques employed in subtropical reservoirs sediments after decades of copper sulfate application. ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH, v. N/A, p. 20-pg., 2022-08-20. (19/10845-4, 16/24528-2)

THAÍS FABIANE GOMES MARTINS; KAREN DE SOUZA FERREIRA; BÁRBARA RANI-BORGES; IVAN EDWARD BIAMONT-ROJAS; SHEILA CARDOSO-SILVA; VIVIANE MOSCHINI-CARLOS; MARCELO LUIZ MARTINS POMPÊO. Uso e ocupação do solo, heterogeneidade espacial de matéria orgânica, frações granulométricas e complexação de metais em sedimentos de reservatório. Acta Limnol. Bras., v. 33, 2021-11-01. (19/10845-4, 16/24528-2)

BIAMONT-ROJAS, IVAN EDWARD; CARDOSO-SILVA, SHEILA; FERREIRA, PAULO ALVES DE LIMA; ALFARO-TAPIA, RENE; FIGUEIRA, RUBENS; POMPEO, MARCELO. Chronostratigraphy elucidates environmental changes in lacustrine sedimentation rates and metal accumulation. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, v. 30, n. 28, p. 16-pg., 2023-05-12. (16/24528-2, 19/10845-4, 21/10637-2, 20/11759-1)