Resistivity geophysical techniques were applied closed to the Londrina's county sanitary landfill, allowing the detection and mapping of leachate contamination plume. The study area lies on the Paraná Basin which is locally represented by basaltic rocks of the Serra Geral Formation. A correlation between lower resistivity values and the supposed leachate contaminations was stablished, once the electrical conduction, under natural conditions, occurs mainly in an ionic way, which are normally presented in the leachate. The main contamination flows in a general SE direction. An unexpected finding of this work was the detection of another flux direction of contamination plume to SW, which flows trough horizontal fractures or alteration surfaces of basaltic contacts.
resistivity; contamination
