Problemas ambientais em três nascentes da cidade de João Pessoa - PB em decorrência da expansão urbana

Abstract

The process of urbanization in the city of João Pessoa - PB occurred in an astonishing fast way and without proper planning, resulting in a series of socioeconomic and environmental problems. As a consequence, one of the main environments directly impacted was the river sources, which despite its great environmental importance, this natural resource has been subjected to constant aggressions, mainly when inserted in urban development regions, which has provided this important area preservation’s destruction. Therefore, this work has as main objective to describe how the development of the city of João Pessoa interfered in the regions of the sources of the rivers Cuiá, Jaguaribe and Cabelo. Field visits were carried out to verify the real situation presented by these environments. At each visit, it was possible to identify and take pictures of the environmental impacts and to conduct informal conversations with local residents in an attempt to understand the relationship of the local population to these environments. Reveling, by all means, that in all the sources, there is a high level of environmental degradation, with the presence of solid residues, irregular occupations, low vegetation cover, sewage disposal and the presence of animals. In order to qualitatively verify the degree of degradation of the springs, the interpretation of the Environmental Impact Index in Nascent - IIAN was performed through visual, sensorial and comparative analyzes. Although the situations presented in all the sources are worrying, it was evidenced that the local population has great interest in recovering these environments, but in order to do that it is necessary the cooperation of the public power, as well as the application of punctual measures in a attempt to remedy all the impacts found in these environments.