Alternativas para el Tratamiento de Vertimientos Provenientes de la Explotación de Oro en el Distrito de California-Vetas, Santander.

Abstract

The discharges generated by the informal (small-scale) gold-mining activity in the district of California-Vetas, Santander, become an environmental problem due to their pollutant discharges, which must be attended by the entities in charge of environmental control, in this particular case the CDMB. From the environmental point of view, these spills have the potential to cause negative impacts or alterations in rivers, streams, streams and aquatic life in general, becoming permanent pollutants. In this paper, alternatives and their respective evaluation are proposed to deal with the dumping resulting from the activity and it is expected to become a reference book for small gold miners in order to comply with current legislation (resolution 0631 of 2015) in which Establishes the maximum permissible parameters and limit values for surface water bodies to public sewer systems.