Diagnóstico socioambiental para la elaboración de un plan de manejo ambiental del canal de riego Mocha-Quero-Ladrillos en la provincia de Tungurahua.

Abstract

An Environmental Management Plan (EMP) was elaborated for the irrigation canal Mocha-QueroLadrillos in the province of Tungurahua. Initially, an on-site evaluation was carried out to show the real situation of the aforementioned canal and it’sare of influence, based on the findings and result of the preliminary evaluation (base line), it was detailed and described the means; physical, biological and socio-economic; additionally, several bibliographic sources of the Decentralized Autonomous Governments (DAG) of Mocha and Quero, and projects conducted in the study area were utilized; except for Water Quality, in which it was sampled irrigation water of four different points of thecanal and later they were taken to the Laboratory of Municipal Company of Potable Water of Ambato for its respective analysis, these results showed that the water in only two sampling points (of the four) is out of the permissible limits of the Unified Text of Secondary Legislation on the Environment (UTSLE). For the socio environmental means, presentations, participatory workshops, among othermethods, were done in order for canal users to become familiar with the process of environmental regulation. Subsequently, it was identified each environmental impact that was provoking the activities and/or operations performed in the canal, consecutively with the Leopold matrix, it was possible to evaluate the above-named positive and negative environmental impacts, where the negative impacts were significant since the weighting resulted in a negative value. Finally, following the format of the Single System of Environmental Information, it was detailed the activities, justification, budget, frequency and an object in each sub-plan of the Environmental Management Plan (EMP). The execution of (EMP) is going to achieve a responsible activity and environmental awareness, where environmental affections are reduced and social relations are improved with all canal users. Therefore, it is recommended the compliance of the (EMP) so that everyone can become aware of the importance of environmental care since only in this way the negative impacts can be reduced significantly.