The State Water Commission (CEA) together with municipal authorities announced the beginning of a new phase in the Querétaro River cleanup project, focused on the section between La Cañada and the Diablo Dam.
This project aims to extend the progress achieved in the first section of the project, with the goal of further reducing organic pollution and improving the environmental quality of the river in urban and suburban areas.
They will begin the second phase of the Querétaro River cleanup
In the first phase, which covered the 3.7 kilometer section between the Calesa and Hércules neighborhoods, the authorities reported an 80% reduction in organic pollution, decreasing the presence of pathogenic microorganisms and raising the levels of dissolved oxygen in the water.
These results, according to the head of the CEA, Luis Vega Ricoy, were achieved through a natural treatment that uses enzymes and bacteria to decompose organic waste without damaging the ecosystem.
“I have been told that the cleanup was already being talked about and now I tell you that we are going to be successful this time, because we are betting heavily on the State Government and we have the collaboration of the municipal governments, the federal government, society and the academy,” he said.
The new stage that begins in La Cañada and extends to the Diablo Dam will cover approximately 3.5 kilometers. This section will be treated with the same alternative sanitation method, in which retention structures and controlled flow zones are installed that help optimize the degradation process of contaminants in the water.
Vega Ricoy stressed that these methods require time to show results, but the expectation is that in six or seven months the water in this section will reach levels of transparency similar to those of Calesa.
The event was attended by the municipal president of Querétaro, Felipe Fernando Macías; the municipal president of El Marqués, Rodrigo Monsalvo; the senator for Querétaro, Agustín Dorantes; the local director of CONAGUA, Raúl José Medina, and the head of SEMARNAT in Querétaro, Lucitania Servín.
Source: diariodequeretaro
