Programa Pax-Vóbis

The Program PAX-VÓBIS, proposed by the Department<br>of Geophysics of University Federal of Pará<br>(UFPA) to the municipal government of Belém, has 4<br>new objectives to exercise of Geophysics: 1) environmental<br>studies of cemetery of Tapanã, 2) monitoring<br>Bengui cemetery, 3) revision of the law of implantation<br>of cemiteries, 4) course about study impacts<br>of cemiteries with geophysics. The project was<br>demanded by the City hall, due to the repercussion<br>obtained with the use of Geophysics in the investigation<br>of cemeteries, that helped in the decision of the<br>definitive closing of Bengui cemetery due to the inappropriate<br>groundwater level in the region. The Program<br>PAX-VÓBIS was hampered by the cut of resources<br>because of the new law of fiscal responsability.<br>But nevertheless the first results already obtained<br>with electroresistivity proved again that the Geophysics<br>can give a very important contribution in the<br>study of cemeteries.