MEDELLIN RIVER PROYECT

THE RIVER• The Medellin river or river is a river Bore crossing the Colombian

city of Medellin and the metropolitan area. Born at 3100 m in the Alto de San Miguel, in the municipality of Caldas, south of the Aburrá Valley, and 100 miles later, with the name of Porce River, flows into the river nechi.

• Medellin was developed on the east side of the river, and it was not until the construction of the Guayaquil Bridge, which the two sides were. The Medellin River has become a development hub of the city local municipalities because of the hundred miles along the river, only three since 1996 the river is being one of the major concerns of the kilometers are free from contamination

• From the third kilometer, sand mining and dumping of sewage from the city made it to be a very polluted river in summertime produce strong odors situation was improving with the opening of the water treatment center residual south valley bored.

• The Medellín river loses its name to the municipality of Barbosa height, where it begins to be called Porce River, which flows a few miles later at Nechí River, which in turn flows into the Cauca river, whose waters flow into the Magdalena river in Bolivar

FEATURES RIVER• Training Area: water or producing area formed by the upper

• Dumping Area: consisting of the middle parts of the mountains, hills or mountains. In this area you can see the creeks and streams

• Confluence area: water or receiving area formed by the lower parts of the mountains. In this sector, the creeks and streams unite around a main river.

SANFERNANDO PLANT• Itagui, Envigado, Sabaneta, La Estrella, of the village of San

Antonio de receives wastewater from homes, industry and trade Prado, then also receive Caldas Township.

• Sewage Plant reach through the sewer routes located in neighborhoods, which discharge to the collectors parallel to the streams, which in turn are connected to interceptors located on each side of the river and finally go to the site of the plant San Fernando

• Plant San Fernando is located in a natural park with 40,000 species of ornamental plants, 2,000 trees and large number and variety of birds

• An estimated 20% of wastewater is difficult to control because the streams reach the river and the problems of invasion of mandatory retirement and the large amount of sediment coming down from the slopes where construction materials are exploited .

PASTPRESENT

River polluted

Medellín river uncontaminated

ARRIVAL OF CHRISTMAS• the end of the year we celebrate Christmas with a tour of the

river full of many Christmas lights and figures is a tradition we have for many years as a family and celebrate the start of Christmas

• arranged round the river with different Christmas themes for year end after the lights and dazzle people with its play of light

• MEDELLIN RIVER

• PROJECT

• FOR:

• NICOLAS CASTAÑO

• JUAN JOSE YEPES

• GRADE: 7

• Medellín

• 2013