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RESUMOA interação do riacho dos Macacos e de uma bateria de poços, na sua vizinhança, em Juazeiro do Norte-CE, foi avaliada segundo parâmetros físicos, químicos e bacteriológicos. Foram realizadas também análisés de oxigênio-18 a fim de avaliar a mistura de águas subterrâneas com águas superficiais. Verificou-se que o riacho dos Macacos, na maioria dos parâmetros analisados, não se enquadra em nenhuma das classes de águas doces da Resolução N° 357 do CONAMA e da Portaria N° 518 do Ministério da Saúde. Constatou-se que neste riacho e no lago da Timbaúba a concentração de coliformes totais e termotolerantes é extremamente elevada. Uma simulação computacional do transporte advectivo do contaminante de partículas do rio para o aqüífero com o modelo MODPATH/MOFLOW revela tempos mínimos de transito do manancial superficial poluído até os filtros dos poços entre 15 e 100 dias. Considerando a meia vida dos coliformes em águas subterrâneas de aproximadamente 8 dias e sua alta concentração na água superficial, contaminação dos poços de abastecimento é inevitável. PALAVRAS-CHAVE:Qualidade de água, contaminação de mananciais, simulação do transporte advectivo. Norte-Ceará, was ABSTRACT The interaction of the Macacos Creek and a neighboring well field, in Juazeiro do

The performance of microstrip antennas using composite thick films of (BTOBaTiO 3 ) and CCTO (CaCu 3 Ti 4 O 12 ) as a substrate were studied. The dielectric permittivity and loss of (BTO) x -(CCTO) 1Àx thick films with x 5 0, 0.2, 0.5, 0.8, 0.9, and 1 were examined. These films were prepared in two-layer geometry using the screen-printing technique on Al 2 O 3 substrates. Mechanical alloying followed by the solid-state procedure was successfully employed to produce powders of CCTO (CaCu 3 Ti 4 O 12 ) used in the films. We also studied the films dielectric permittivity (K) and loss (D) in the medium-frequency (MF) range (100 Hz to 1 MHz). The performance of a planar microstrip antenna that uses the (BTO) x :(CCTO) 1Àx thick films as a substrate of high K was also examined in the microwave range of frequencies. From the analysis of the antenna operation of the samples, one can conclude that the higher values of K in the range of 2.5-3.3 GHz antennas is presented by the BTO substrates. For the BTO film, the K value is ;66 (2.6 GHz) and decreases to 34 for the CCTO film (3 GHz). For the BTO and CCTO films, the antenna bandwidths (BW) are ;50% and ;38%, respectively. The higher bandwidth presented by the BTO compared to the CCTO is certainly associated with the higher loss presented by the BTO phase, which is a ferroelectric phase. Therefore, these measurements confirm the potential use of such materials for small microwave planar antennas, where the miniaturization of the devices is crucial.

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This paper presents a case study in which the solute transport model MT3D, associated with the MODFLOW flow model, was used in the assessment of contamination of an aquifer by surface water from a creek contaminated with urban wastewater, using chloride as a tracer.In that area of the aquifer, groundwater is exploited through a field of wells along the creek. The calibration of the transport model was