A study covering the shallow subsurface was performed in order to investigate the possibility of underground contamination by liquids used in the industrial processing of dead animal skin to produce tanned hide. The study was carried out inside the area of the Couro do Norte industry, located in the Icoaraci Industrial District (Belém-PA). The used geophysical methodology was: resistivity (imaging and vertical electric soundings), spontaneous potential, electromagnetic (slingram) and ground penetrating radar (GPR). The integrated geophysical interpretation of data indicated the underground flow direction and a shallow plume of contamination, caused probably by the disposal of effluents by the Couro do Norte industry.
Contamination plume; tanned hide; Icoaraci; shallow geophysics; GPR
