Complaint > Cartagena Water Supply, Sewerage and Environmental Management Project

Compliance Report: 31-Investigation Report (English)

...unknown. In order to gain an appreciation of the potential influence of the proposed outfall on a regional scale and assess the assimilative capacity of the region it is useful to compare the loads from the proposed outfall to those originating from the Magdalena River that drains most of Columbia and enters the ocean near Barranquilla about 100 km north of Cartagena. The comparisons are shown in Table 1. From Table 1 it is seen that the impact of the proposed outfall is very small in terms of f...