A través de la Resolución 01733 the 6 October 2011, Corpoguajira defined the sections of the Tapias and Carraipía rivers – Paraguachón, for the period 2011 – 2020, according to the following description and geographic location:

Tapias river:

Stretch 1: since its birth in the Cuchilla del Mico, to station E1, before the intake of the municipal aqueduct of Riohacha.

Stretch 2: from the intake of the municipal aqueduct of Riohacha, to station E2, town center of Puente Bomba.

Stretch 3: from the town center of Puente Bomba, to the mouth of the Caribbean Sea (Punta La Enea).

Carraipía River – Paraguachón:

Stretch 1: since its birth in the Montes de Oca Forest Reserve, formed by the Cagual and Chingolita streams, even before the intake of the municipal aqueduct of Maicao.

Stretch 2: since before the intake of the municipal aqueduct of Maicao, to the Majayura bridge, Agricultural Vocational Institution.

Stretch 3: from the Majayura bridge, Agricultural Vocational Institution, to the Paraguachón bridge – La Ray, KM 7, before the river enters Venezuelan territory.

In the same way, the quality objectives of the water bodies were established for each of these sections., taking into account parameters such as pH, temperature, conductivity, dissolved solids, substances of health concern, unpleasant odors, fecal coliforms, inter alia; which will be monitored year after year, in such a way that the environmental impact of the economic instrument can be evaluated and a relationship established between the quality of water bodies and the variation in pollutant loads contributed by users, as a recipient of punctual discharges.

Meanwhile, Corpoguajira established that public sewerage service providers, located in each of the basins, that have not implemented the Plan for Sanitation and Management of Discharges, must adjust it within a period of no more than three months, in accordance with the provisions of the Decree 3930 of 2010. Additionally, it is their responsibility to have a list before 4 months the information related to the diagnosis of the sewage system, identification of all the specific wastewater discharges carried out, characterization of wastewater discharges and characterization of streams, projections of the pollutant load generated, collected, transported and treated by dumping and by current; objectives to reduce the number of specific discharges for the short and long term, formulation of monitoring indicators that reflect the physical progress of the programmed works and the level of achievement of the objectives and quality goals proposed.