[1] The Caladão Stream was originally called Calado (English: Quiet), a reference to the silence required to avoid attracting the attention of natives living in the area at the beginning of the 19th century.

At the beginning of the 20th century, this route was responsible for the formation of the settlement of Santo Antônio de Piracicaba, the first urban nucleus of the current municipality of Coronel Fabriciano, which is now the Melo Viana neighborhood.

Between January and February 1979, the high level of the Piracicaba River caused the flooding of the Caladão Stream after about 40 consecutive days of heavy rains.

[14][15] On December 27, 2013, a four-hour storm after two weeks of interrupted rainfall raised the level of the river suddenly to 2.8 meters, causing a new flood in the city.

On December 11, 2017, after a few hours of rain, a section of the walking path on Julita Pires Bretas Avenue in the Santa Terezinha neighborhood, built as part of the Projeto Parque Linear, collapsed due to the volume of water in the spring.

[23][24][17] Coronel Fabriciano's Ordinance Plan includes reforestation of the section inside the urban area, an increase in flow capacity and flood control.

In 2004, the construction of a sewage treatment plant located between the Mangueiras and Santa Terezinha II neighborhoods to meet the demand from the city's waterways began to be studied.

In the following years, collection networks and interceptors were installed throughout the Caladão Stream sub-basin, even without a definitive position on the location of the sewage treatment plant.

[25] Sewage from Coronel Fabriciano remained discharged directly into the watercourses bordering the urban perimeter without any management until 2019, when the construction of a treatment plant in Limoeiro, district of Timóteo, to supply 165,000 inhabitants in both cities was authorized.

Environmental education projects in the city's schools, lectures, photographic exhibitions, video presentations and community meetings are held to alleviate the situation.