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Impact of different land-uses within an urban basin and its
direct relationship with coastal solid waste management
Grullón, I. & Cátala, A.
Monday 5th, october 2015
The Problem
Project Summary• Differentiate between land uses (residential and commercial) within the river
basin, and identify the type of contaminants they produce (solid waste contaminants).
• We will study a river in PR (Río Piedras) and we will identify the different areas that go from more to less urban development in order to establish a gradient of impact in the river and later on in the coast.
• Solid waste will be monitor by 3 strategies in four predetermined zones.
• This study will help acknowledge which zones contaminate more and where to focus the efforts in order to make better management and educational plans.
Research Problem
• General Question:
If there are different land–uses within a river basin then they would impact the coastal zones by the input of solid waste in different ways.
Research Problem• Poor solid waste managment can derive in coastal ecosystems problems sucha as :
1. Low water flow due to physical barriers. 2. Depossition and accumulation of solid wastes. 3. Contamination of different kinds. 4. Lost of natural, social, and economical value.
• Lack of educational strategies for the sorrunding communities implies lack of information regarding the ecosystemic value of both the basin and the coastal zones.
• Zonification of the basin area and different land uses difficults the implementation and reinforsment of different strategies on behalf of the conservation of these areas.
Confusing situationsfor animals
Bio – Socio – Economical
Problems
Lost of recreational places Decrease in fishing
General Objective
Evaluate the sources of contamination in a river basin in terms of solid waste contaminants. Quantify the amount of contamination from each source and identify strategies to target the problem in each community in order to establish better approaches for each of the populations occupying them.
Specific Objectives1. Differentiate between residential and commercial urban zones along the river
and identify the type of contaminant (plastic and metal) for each zone.
2. Identify plastic and metal contaminants along the river and characterize them by type and source.
3. Count the amount of solid waste contaminants generated by each of the two zones and correlated to the impact each causes in the basin and the coast.
4. Evaluate the regulations and compliance of the understudy area to generate recommendations in the specified fields.
5. Generate and integrative educational plan for the urban communities upstream.
Metodology (1/3)Where?
1. The watershed to be study will be Ríoo Piedras in Puerto Rico. A. The area will be divided in four transects following the criteria bellow:
- Non built space - Develop areas or built space - Population Density - Direct relation with the coast
a. In each transect there will be 4 sampling sites, that will meet the criteria of interest (e.g. Residential and commercial spaces with low and high population densities)
Metodology (2/3)
What?
1. Do a screening process of the waste each zone produces in order to establish a relation to the source later on.
2. Monitor water flow to determine the effect of physical barriers due to accumulation of plastics and metals.
3. Create a map using GIS of the input points into de body of water.
4. Account the amount of solid waste and classify it based on the Coastal Cleanup Plan Made by International Ocean Conservancy.
5. Identify the origin and sources of waste generation. A posterior classification will be available in the main categories of industrial and residential areas.
Metodology (3/3)
How?
- Water flow:
a) Direct and indirect measurement of water surfaces (Dostal et. Al., 2002)
- Compilation of Solid Waste:
a) Following the standard procedure of Coastal Cleanup Plan Made by International Ocean Conservancy.
Activities
• Organize talks and conferences for the communities, residential and commercial separately.
• Visit schools in the community and orient the faculty about the project and involve them in the creation of the educational plan.
• Organize excursions along the river to create awareness of the problem.
• Create different groups for the monitoring and guarding of the river.
Time Table1st. Phase
- Delimit the zone of interest and identify the sub zones.- Survey the sites in order to generate an inventory of what each site uses, in terms of plastic and metals.
2nd. Phase- Generate the inventory of all barriers or accumulation points along the river.
-Recolect the plastics and metals and store them for further analysis.
3rd. Phase - Evaluation of the regulatory and educational plan.- Creation of the strategies and recommendations for each site and their particular problems.
2 months
Once a month for 12 months.
10 months
Budget Summary Equipment
Equipment Model Quantity Cost (US $)
ArcGIS --- 1 license 799.00
GPS Trimble Juno 3b Handheld
1 unit 1,500.00
Camera Canon PowerShot ELPH 160
2 units 109.99
Flowmeter Sotera FR1118P10 2 units 115.00
Printed Educational Material
--- --- 500.00 (aprox)
Office Supplies --- --- 300.00
Industrial Scale Amw-tl440 2 99.99
Budget Summary Stipend
Personnel Tittle Period Cost (US $)
___ Undergraduate Student
384 hrs (1 year) 7.25 per hour
Iana Grullón Master Student
1 years 872.00 per month
Argenis Cátala Doctorate Student
1 years 1,090.00 per month
Total: US $ 29,751.98Matching funds: US $ 13,164.00
Potential Benefits
• Coastal zone preservation and maintenance.
• Knowledge improvement and enrichment in the communities surrounding riversites and in coastal areas for better practices in the solid waste management.
• Guidelines for industrial and residential communities integration in the executionof the solid waste management plan.
