João Alexandre Saviolo Osti^1,2,3, Clovis Ferreira Do Carmo^3,4, Marcos Cerqueira^3,4, Maria Teresa Duarte Giamas^3,4, Ana Carolina Peixoto^3,5, Cacilda Thais Janson Cacilda Thais Janson^3,4

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¹ Pesquisador Associado ao Instituto de Pesca, São Paulo, Brasil.
² Professor Colaborador à Universidade Brasil, Fernandópolis, Brasil.
³ Centro de Pesquisa em Recursos Hídricos, Instituto de Pesca, APTA-SAA, São Paulo, Brasil.
⁴ Pesquisador Científico do Instituto de Pesca, São Paulo, Brasil.
⁵ Aluna PIBIC de Iniciação Científica do Instituto de Pesca, São Paulo, Brasil.
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Abstract: The city of S?o Paulo, state of S?o Paulo/Brazil, with about 12 million inhabitants is considered the largest city in Latin America. Just as in other large metropolises it is devoid of green areas, in this way it is of great socio-environmental importance of the preservation and maintenance of parks and green areas of the municipality. The Fernando Costa Park, known as the Parque da água Branca, is an urban park located in the central region of the Municipality of S?o Paulo, and has more than 79 thousand m² of green area, in a total area of 137 thousand m². Two lakes, populated predominantly with carp, are inserted in the Park, and are important components of the urban landscape and the patrimony of the city, present landscape function (scenic beauty) and are used to contemplate the environment and leisure of the population. The lakes due to the intense eutrophication process with uncontrolled growth of the phytoplankton presented blue-green coloration, with formations of lumps and foams, low transparency, bad smell and unpleasant visual aspect impairing the visitation of this place. In the first stage of the present research, an environmental diagnosis was carried out and the second stage involved elaboration and implementation of mitigating measures aiming at its restoration. The recovery proposal included the implementation of Artificial Floating Islands (IFAs) aiming at pollution control. After 60 days, it was possible to observe the efficiency of the Eichhornia crassipes populated islands showing that the methodology of phytoremediation was efficient in controlling the eutrophication of urban lakes, guaranteeing the recovery and conservation of the scenic beauty of these places.

Keywords: Water Quality, Eutrophication, Pollution, Landscape Ecology

Cite this paper: Osti, J. , Carmo, C. , Cerqueira, M. , Giamas, M. , Peixoto, A. , Cacilda Thais Janson, C. (2019) Recovery of Scenic Beauty of a Lake in Urban Park from Environmental Diagnosis and Implantation of Mitigating Measures. Journal of Water Resource and Protection, 11, 595-605. doi: 10.4236/jwarp.2019.115034.

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