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Rocas, Natal - RN, Brazil



Simplified sewerage was first installed in the early 1980s in Rocas and Santos Reis, adjacent low-income areas in Natal, the capital of the northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil (Fig. 1). The very first installation was in Quadra 90 ('Housing Block 90') (Fig. 2).

Further details on the Rocas and Santos Reis scheme are given in this excerpt from the 1986 UNCHS publication The Design of Shallow Sewer Systems.

Google Earth view of Rocas

                                              Fig. 1.  Google Earth view of Rocas

           Quadra 90
                          
                                                             Fig. 2.  Quadra 90