Evaluación y propuesta de mejoramiento para la Planta de Tratamiento de Agua Potable (PTAP) Emcopey E.S.P – Cesar.

Abstract

The purpose of this degree project is to evaluate and provide improvement alternatives for the PTAP - EMCOPEY E.S.P, located in the municipality of Copey, department of Cesar, which according to data provided by the Information System of the Surveillance of Water Quality for Human Consumption, reports that the Water Supply Risk Index (IRCA) has presented scores of 9.20; 18.18; 22.27; 34.16; 37.5; which indicates that it is not suitable for the consumer and is a possible cause of various diseases. This led to a process of inspection and monitoring of each of the treatment stages, in order to propose alternatives to improve water production and quality. The first phase of the methodology consisted in the collection of information pertaining to the plant, through field visits and review of technical documents, in order to give a diagnosis through a description of the current state of the WTP. Then, the second phase consisted of prioritizing and identifying those critical stages that required an opportunity for improvement and suggesting an operational solution for each of them. Subsequently, a budget margin was estimated for each of the alternatives found, allowing the administration to develop projects for the subsequent improvement of the EMCOPEY E.S.P. water treatment plant. As a result of the inspection and verification process, an operation and maintenance manual was prepared, since there was a lack of one and it is required by resolution 082 of 2009 in the part of the Good Sanitary Practices (GSP), with the delivery of the document it was sought that the operators have a support tool when they have any doubt with the operation and maintenance of each process unit of the PTAP, in the same way to improve the management of information and communications stipulated in the resolutions. It is of utmost importance to inform the operator about the existence of resolution 082 of 2009 "whereby forms are adopted for the practice of sanitary inspection visits to water supply systems for human consumption", so it was decided to conduct a training, where the factors that imply good sanitary practices by the provider to have a low level of risk according to the BPSp.p. were made known.