The present work aimed to evaluate the environmental water and sediment quality in Mogi-Guaçu and Pardo Rivers Basins (São Paulo State), in the localities of water supply intake for the 13 cities in the basins. Metals and ions analysis of the water and sediment were performed according to methods to procedures described in Standard Methods for Examinations of Water and Wastewater, 17 th edition. The hydrographic basins from Mogi-Guaçu and Pardo Rivers have a large agriculture influence on limnologic, physical and chemical characteristics and this area is unique in the State of São Paulo that the water catchment for supply is only surface and is used for water supply agriculture, public and industrial as well as far other uses, and it is also the recharge of Guarani's aquifer and it is one of huge aquifers in the world. In this study sampling was carried out at in a hydrological period, they were sampled bimonthly for 12 months (April 98/April 99
Recebido em 4/9/01; aceito em 27/6/02 MINERAL INFLUENCE ON CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF DRINKING WATER SUPPLY FROM MOGI-GUAÇU AND PARDO RIVERS. This work studied bottom sediment from catchment area of 13 stations of water treatment of Mogi-Guaçu and Pardo river basins, through identification of mineralogical matrix and its correlation with potential bioavailable metal concentrations. The main clay minerals present were kaolinite and illite. The values of iron and manganese grades were derived from reddish-purple soil, which is rich of such elements. They had higher values on areas with weak vegetation cover compared with other areas linked with more vegetation density. Higher values of calcium at Campestrinho station (IG 69) were associated to occurrence by weathering of calcium feldspars markedly present on regional porphiritic acid rocks. The concentrations of phosphorous are characteristically high on areas near urbanized regions.
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