PROMORIVER

Members from ASPEA and volunteers joined in a monitoring activity of Trancão river. This river, located in the eastern part of Lisbon, was formerly considered as one of the most polluted rivers in Europe, since previously household and industrial waste was sent into the river without treatment. As this area was requalified for the 1998 World Fair a sewage treatment plant was built, and many of the industrial facilities that once existed in the river banks were scrapped.

 

In order to try to understand if those measures had a real impact in this river's environment, the team followed the river fom its mouth towards the interior, observing the river banks and also taking water samples in three different spots.

 

To analyze the water samples, to identify the animals and plants, and also to describe the river, the "Projecto Rios" - River Project - kit was employed.

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