Increasing the effficincy of elsalam canal project using. The mubarak peace bridge, also known as the egyptianjapanese friendship bridge, al salam bridge, or al salam peace bridge, is a road bridge crossing the suez canal at elqantara, whose name means the bridge in arabic. The models simulate the canal reach from its intake at damietta branch until the point just before the suez canal syphon. Pdf evaluation of the land resources for agricultural. Application of remote sensing to site characterisation and.
In this respect, elsalam peace canal is considered as a unique project brings the nile water to the eastern deserts of north sinai. As an associate investigator in the project titled improving wheat production in saline and alkali soils of elsalam canal project funded by ministry of agriculture and land reclamation, egypt. Chemical water quality investigations azza hafez a, maaly khedr a, kamel elkatib a, hanaa gad alla a, samir elmanharawy b a chemical engineering and pilotplant department, national research center, cairo, egypt tel. Assessing the agricultural drainage water with water. Land cover map delineation, for agriculture development. Flood forecasting and warning system for dam operation project ii 16.
Their combined citations are counted only for the first. Investigation of elsalam canal project in northern sinai, egypt. Development of elsalam canal automation system citeseerx. Evaluation of the project participatory slum upgrading in elhallous and elbhatini, ismailia, egypt final report. Desalination 227 2008 274285 elsalaam canal project, sinai ii. Simulated wq data using a onedimensional hydrodynamic model indicated that the wq deteriorated towards the downstream of the canal due to the polluted water discharged from canal feeders e. Pdf elsalam canal is a potential project reusing the nile delta. Advice on operational management system for elsalam canal project. The chemical and microbiological quality of the canal water were monitored along two successive years, to follow effects of seasonal and spatial distribution along the first 55 km course.
Assessing the agricultural drainage water with water quality. A a satellite image for the canal beginning of the elsalam siphon under suez canal. Jul 30, 2008 desalination 227 2008 274285 elsalaam canal project, sinai ii. Elsalam canal was designed to sup ply the irrigation water to a total area of 620,000 feddans consisting of 220 thousand feddans on the western side of the suez canal and 400 thousand feddans east of the suez canal in sinai. Pdf elsalam canal is a potential project reusing the. The lowest point of the tunnel dewatering point is approximately 43 meters under sea level.
Simulation of water quality for the elsalam canal in egypt. Ten different water sampling locations of elsalam canal project were selected to cover the implemented studied area to evaluate the chemical properties of this water during the. Project manager of field investigation and mathematical model study of the intakeoutlet configuration of nobaria power plant the bot project, 640 mw, which is located at nobaria canal, 7. International journal of ecology and development research. The elsalam canal project escp as shown in figure 1 is one of the mega projects that aims at irrigating 620,000 feddan in north sinai. Management practices for elsalam canal project, egypt. Only a small portion of the cultivated land located in the western side of suez canal has recently been irrigated by surface drip irrigation. The distribution of emergent vegetation within the lake has also changed. Sadat called his proposed canal alsalam, meaning the peace. Pdf irrigation water quality evaluation in elsalam canal project. It is often considered to define the border between africa and asia. This eight station network will be complemented with an automated weather station with a central command centre. Constructed by the suez canal company between 1859 and 1869, it officially opened on 17 november 1869. A real time water quality monitoring network and water.
Irrigation water quality evaluation in elsalam canal project article pdf available in international journal of advances in engineering sciences and applied mathematics 31. As an agricultural canal, the elsalam canal was selected because it is the largest, currently ongoing adw reuse project in egypt. Ten different water sampling locations of elsalam canal project were selected to cover the implemented studied area to evaluate the chemical properties of this. Land cover map delineation, for agriculture development, case. Production of activated carbon from oil palm empty fruit bunches for. Elsalam canal is a potential project reusing the nile delta. Microbial and chemical water quality article pdf available. The control of such behavior has been challenging and often elusive in practice. Transfer of low cost farming technologies from large investors to small investors and individual farmers.
A2 elsalam canal project description elsalam canal project as shown in figure 2 is in the eastern nile delta. In arsinoe, ptolemy constructed a navigable lock, with sluices, at the heroopolite gulf of the red sea, which allowed the passage of vessels but prevented salt water from the red sea from mingling with the fresh water in the canal. The dynamic behavior of water quality and quantity in the egyptian drains is often viewed as a disruption to the normal operation and performance of the process of water reuse in irrigation. The water quality index wqi is considered one of the most promising methods for the classification of water quality wq, which also contributes to water resource management.
However after a site visit site in january 2008, nl03 was changed. Evaluation of the programme strengthening of national. This study adopted the irrigation wq index iwqi and an analogous index based on a fuzzy logic approach, namely, the fuzzy logic water reuse index fwri to assess the water quality in the elsalam canal project in. The core of this project is building a siphon under the suez canal and constructing alsheikh gaber canal to cultivate 1680 km2 400 thousand feddans east of the suez canal. Forbes davidson, institute for housing and urban development studies, the netherlands. Irrigation water quality evaluation in elsalam canal project. For this purpose, elsalam canal project was initiated in 1987 as an integral a part of the north sinai development project. Elsalam canal is a potential project reusing the nile delta drainage water for sinai desert agriculture.
Elsalam canal, regression model, drainage water reuse, water. Numerical evaluation of subsurface trickle irrigation with. Impact of sea level rise on groundwater level at project area. This fresh water gets mixed with drainage water from the egyptian delta, to increase water reuse. It then moves east and then again south to hadoos drainage. Water free fulltext assessing the agricultural drainage water. The lack of studies in this regard hampers potential benefits of these systems in view of higher initial costs as. Moreover, the two models were applied on elsalam canal considering three. Therefore the elsalam canal project escp was established by the. In addition, there is sheikh jaber canal project second phase of al salam canal, at a total cost of 62 million pounds, in order to serve about 9,000 feddans at raba area within the. An inscription on a pillar at pithom records that in 270 or 269 bce, it was again reopened, by ptolemy ii philadelphus.
The sustainable rural sanitation services program for results srssp was effective on december 2015 to support the nrsp in a number of. Therefore, this paper presents a framework to advance the understanding and opportunities for improving the reuse. In this study, an assessment for a proposed irrigation system in the elsalam canal cultivated land, egypt, was conducted. Increasing the effficincy of elsalam canal project. B outline map of elsalam canal development project, showing the course of the canal and the.
A numerical model hydrus2d3d was applied to investigate the effect of irrigation amount, frequency, and emitter depth on the wetted soil volume, soil salinity levels, and deep percolation under subsurface trickle irrigation sdi of tomato growing with brackish. The bridge links the continents of africa and asia. Project summary and jbics cooperation this project is aimed to build pumping stations and related facilities including power transformation facilities to secure the water level in the main irrigation canal elsalam canal on the 82 km extension linking the damietta effluent in the eastern side of the nile delta in egypt with the suez canal. The canal elsalam starts at its intake on the right bank of damietta branch of the nile, some 3 km upstream of the farskour dam. They reclaimed the land for producing fish in large fish ponds and continued doing aquaculture, in spite of government plans for agricultural use.
Elsalam canal project cultivated lands results from the lack of specific studies and guidelines for the suitability of these techniques with brackish irrigation water in saltaffected soils. Publicprivatepartnership in irrigation and drainage in egypt. Regression based modeling and numerical simulations for the. It then moves east under the suez canal in some tunnels. Eldegwi et al 10 focused on the bod parameter as a good measure for the organic load in. The actual irrigation design group assesses the information, specifies the precise crop water demands, does hydraulic computations in order to determine the pieces and structure of your irrigation system, the water pressure which will likely be utilized all through the irrigation system, as well as the irrigation scheduling. The canal represents the largest agricultural drainage water reuse. Papers published in refereed international journals. Elsalam canal is a potential project reusing the nile. Extending al salam canal to the proposed palestinian state. Evaluation of modern irrigation techniques with brackish.
Elhammam canal and its extension, nw coast of egypt, authorahmed sayed ahmed sayed, year20 ahmed sayed ahmed sayed. At the onset of the escp, it was assumed that the total drainage water available from hadus and lower serw drains is around 3. Elsalam canal is a potential project reusing the nile delta drainage. This paper introduces an automation system for elsalam canal to control the flow of the fresh water and drainage water supplied to the canal. The four strategic sites on the nile river selected for this project were nl03, nl34, nl39 and nl42. Elsalam peace canal, having a mixture of such drainage water and the nile water 1. B outline map of elsalam canal development project, showing the course of the canal and the five i, ii, iii, iv, v future targeted cultivated. This automatic control system acs is able to process data of various flows and water quality data along the canal. This control system is represented by a canal computer model. Elsalam canal project 50% of the project area is allocated to large investors, 20% to small investors, and 30% to small farmers. Elsalam canal project in egypt where agriculture drainage water adw is expected to be reused for irrigation.