This dissertation, treats of an area, located on north of the fluminense state, in the limit,
among the municipal districts of São Francisco of Itabapoana - RJ and President Kennedy -
ES. The river Itabapoana, that spies the two states in this place, went for interventions of
DNOS between 1962 and 1971. These works sought to the liberation of the humid areas for
agricultural production and disrespecting the reflexes of the work there on the traditional
population of fishing located. The drainage dried the lowered of flooding and the river in
straight line eliminated the connection with the lowered of flooding. The reflexes of the work
reached the fishing community that more than fifteen years ago it pleads the “revitalizacion”
of the area hoping to receive water renewed in the drought times. In this direction, the work
looked for to identify alternatives that allow the return of the water and the ambient quality of
the region leaving of four proposals and the benefits and the decurrent conflict potential of
each one of them. To the end of the survey, three proposals had been presented to the fishing
community in the direction of this to choose to that more efficient and with less conflict one
of the point of view of the confrontation with the land proprietors. Finally, a fourth proposal
was presented by the well-known researcher of knowing, defending the creation of a Unit of
Conservation, that if compared with the others proposals, this last one although presents more
conflict potential also presents bigger social and ambient benefit
Key Words: Ambient draining, conflicts, “revitalizacion”