OCCUPATION OF PERMANENT PRESERVATION AREAS OF RIVER CANALS IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL AT MUNICIPALITY OF JATAÍ - GO

Abstract

Green areas protect the river canals that are closely linked to an ecologically balanced environment and the brazilian and Goiás legislation defined as the area to be protected. The Municipality of Jataí (GO) has its environmental legislation they are made for permanent preservation areas, such as areas of minimum 30 m wide from the edge for all streams that drain the city, except the Rio Claro and Queixada that has the minimum width of 300 m. The environmental code of the municipality says the headwater areas surrounding radius must have a minimum of 100 m as permanent protection. The director plan of Jataí served as reference and cartographic software was used ArcGIS Desktop 9.2 and its tools to define the areas of the city which invaded the permanent preservation areas. The scenario pointed out that of all the surveyed river canals. These canals have eight permanent preservation areas with irregular occupation by local people. The 383.431,4 m² of permanent preservation areas of the urban environment Jataí are irregularly occupied, representing 3,81% of the total areas of permanent preservation areas. The environmental legislation of the municipality agrees with the sole paragraph of art. 2 Brazilian Forest Code of 1965 and the Forest Goiás (1995), and in some points is seen even more restrictive in the case of permanent preservation areas of the springs. The issue of urban expansion and economic activities are the factors that define the criteria for the occupancy of permanent preservation areas. The study sought to highlight the illegal occupation of man in areas of permanent preservation of fluvial channels Jataí (GO).