The Medellin River Project involves implementing a sanitation program for the Medellin River, including a water treatment plant and interceptors. The river faces pollution issues from industrial and domestic waste, causing odor issues and changes in water quality. The San Fernando water treatment plant, operated by EPM, treats wastewater from surrounding municipalities to remove 80% of pollution before returning it to the Medellin River, improving water conditions. However, the plant does not address all contamination such as dumping of coloring agents that still discolor the river at times.

1. Medellín River Project
MEDELLIN RIVER
The Medellin River is born in Alto de San Miguel
sidewalks Clara, Sixty Salada and the municipality of
Caldas, Antioquia department, at a height of 3,000
meters above sea level. It extends approximately 100
kilometers from its source to where it empties into the
The Medellín River is born in Alto de San Miguel sidewalks Clara, Sixty Salada and
the municipality of Caldas, Antioquia department,called Rio of 3,000 meters above
Rio Grande, where it begins to be at a height Porce.
sea level. It extends approximately 100 kilometers from its source to where it empties
into the Rio Grande, where it begins to be called Rio Porce.

2. • The color change in the river sometimes Medellín, is due to the
dumping of industrial waste water, which may come from
organic and inorganic substances used in industrial processes
and, if they are discharged into the river may impair their
quality, by changing their physicochemical characteristics.
• The Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley, like environmental
authority, has the authority to regulate this and drastic
punishment by fines and / or suspensions of activity and
discharges, those who act against this water resource.
CAUSES OF POLLUTION

3. • It appeals to those industries that are affecting the quality
of the Medellin River and its tributaries, to refrain from
illegal dumping, both on the public sewer system, as on
surface water sources.
CAUSES OF POLLUTION

4. PICTURE SAN FERNANDO
PLANT

5. • The proposed project involves implementation of
program works Medellín River Sanitation, including the
Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) Bello, the Medellín
River North interceptor and the joints between the
collectors and the North interceptor. Additionally develop
an institutional strengthening component that covers the
following points: i) support for the implementation of
International Financial Reporting Standards Group
EEPPM and ii) training in areas related to the provision
of water and sanitation.
Sanitation Program

6. • He is 12 years old and although it has not managed to change
the whole face Medellín River, it has removed odors from
southern Moravia Aburrá Valley to also have removed 30
percent of the pollution caused by solid and organic matter .
• San Fernando Plant, operated by EPM, is the guardian of the
river, trying domestic wastewater and sewage industries
Itagüí, Envigado, Sabaneta and La Estrella.
• "Through a secondary biological treatment we separate that
water pollution in order to return to Medellín River with 80
percent less pollution," explains John Fernando Jaramillo, head
of the Wastewater Treatment of EPM.
SAN FERNANDO PLANT

7. • For Secretary of Environment of Medellin, Ana Milena
Joya, San Fernando Plant, has a very positive
impact, especially in reducing odors.
• Highlight the plant removes contaminants that end up in
the river and take all the oxygen decompose water and
produce odor.
• Diana explains Castro, leader of environmental
management in the metropolitan area, yes there is a
substantial improvement in water quality, which is
reflected in the population has increased and river
conditions continue to improve.
SAN FERNANADO PLANT

8. • Eafit University, notes that the San Fernando problem is
that does not include some variables of
contamination, however, Ana Cristina
Restrepo, environmental engineer and teacher at the.
• "When the river is dyed red, the scandal is that the San
Fernando plant is not good and that it is not, what
happens is that it is a plant that is made to comply with an
existing standard that does not include parameters such as
dumping of color, "he says.
SAN FERNANDO PLANT

9. PICTURE MEDELLIN RIVER