The Brazilian East coast was intensely affected by deforestation, which drastically cut back the original biome. The possible impacts of this process on water resources are still unknown. The purpose of this study was an evaluation of the impacts of deforestation on the main water balance components of the Galo creek watershed, in the State of Espírito Santo, on the East coast of Brazil. Considering the real conditions of the watershed, the SWAT model was calibrated with data from 1997 […]

The model SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) was used to simulate alternative scenarios of land use in Ribeirão dos Marins watershed, in Piracicaba, State of São Paulo, Brazil, for the biennial period 1999/2000. Two scenarios were simulated. The first one (scenario 1) was based on the current land use except for the introduction of a continuous riparian buffer of 30 m along the drainage network and of 50 m around the springs, in accordance to Brazil’s environmental legislation. In […]

The SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) model was applied to simulate the sediment yield in the watershed Ribeirão dos Marins, in Piracicaba, Brazil, for the biennial period of 1999/2000. The application of this model requires georeferenced input data, provided by an interface between the model and a Geographic Information System (GIS). The watershed was divided into sub-basins, and parameters were separately determined for each area. The simulated sediment yields were compared to the observed data of a gauge station […]