Uso de invertebrados aquáticos na avaliação da toxicidade da água e do sedimento contaminados por efluentes de esgoto doméstico

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Tulio, Juliana
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná; Curitiba; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia Ambiental
• Palavras-chave em Português: Águas residuais - Purificação - Curitiba (PR); Sedimentos fluviais; Toxicologia ambiental; Tecnologia ambiental; Sewage - Purification - Curitiba (PR); River sediments; Environmental toxicology; Green technology
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/1193

In Brazil the environmental law in force establishes that wastewaters can not cause acute or chronic effect to the water bodies’ biota. In the present study were evaluated the ecotoxicological effects of surface water and whole sediment samples, from three sites located nearby a wastewater treatment plant, that were collected from a river in the region of Curitiba, state of Paraná. The samples were submitted to acute and chronic toxicity tests, utilizing the aquatic invertebrates D. magna and C. sancticaroli. Besides the ecotoxicological tests, BOD, COD, Total Phosphorus, Total Nitrogen Ammonia and Thermotolerant coliforms were measured from the surface water samples. The whole sediment composition was evaluated by Energy-dispersive X- Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (EDXRF) to determine chemical elements present in these samples. The BOD, COD, Total Phosphorus, Total Nitrogen ammonia, and Thermotolerant coliforms analysis’ results possibly demonstrated surface water contamination by domestic sewage, for the samples analyzed in 3 campaigns. The sediment composition is compatible with the kinds of soils present in the respective sites, however there were quantitative variation of chemical elements during the campaigns, such as silicon, aluminum and iron, not seeming to directly influence the tests. The test results for acute toxicity with water and sediment matrix have not expressed toxicity to D. magna and C. sancticaroli. For chronic toxicity tests with surface water, the observed effect was the reproduction increase in D. magna. Aspects such as lethality and the absence of sexual maturity development were observed in pure samples accruing from the nearest point of the WTP in all campaigns, after 10 test days for D. magna. The whole sediment samples have not promoted lethality in Daphnideos, although a reproduction increase occurred. For C. sancticaroli, exposed to the whole sediment, an abnormal length development of the organisms occurred, emerging in adults until the 8th chronic test day.