USE OF RAPID EVALUATION PROTOCOL IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL DIAGNOSIS OF FLUVIAL SYSTEMS: CASE STUDY IN URBAN AREAS OF ICONHA AND PIÚMA (ES)

Abstract

Drainage basins are examples of spatial arrengements that integrate a joint vision of the behavior of natural conditions and human activities within them, where urbanization and its materializations are highlighted, which often have negative consequences in the fluvial systems. Nowadays, the development of rapid and simple tools to accomplish the preliminary environmental diagnosis of such systems has been conquering space against monitoring stations, like the Rapid Evaluation Records (Protocolos de Avaliação Rápida – PARs). Thus, this study discuss the potentialities of applying a PAR model in urban areas of the municipalities of Iconha and Piúma (ES), in the context of the Novo River Drainage Basin. The results show that in four out of five analyzed points, the environmental quality was classified as “intermediate”, while in the remaining one it was “good”. The use of the PAR model was generally satisfactory, exposing the advantages of its use to designate the environmental quality of the analyzed rivers.