The four strategic sites on the nile river selected for this project were nl03, nl34, nl39 and nl42. The canal represents the largest agricultural drainage water reuse. 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 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. Publicprivatepartnership in irrigation and drainage in egypt. Elsalam peace canal, having a mixture of such drainage water and the nile water 1. Eldegwi et al 10 focused on the bod parameter as a good measure for the organic load in. Transfer of low cost farming technologies from large investors to small investors and individual farmers. Forbes davidson, institute for housing and urban development studies, the netherlands. The lack of studies in this regard hampers potential benefits of these systems in view of higher initial costs as. Advice on operational management system for elsalam canal project. Their combined citations are counted only for the first. For this purpose, elsalam canal project was initiated in 1987 as an integral a part of the north sinai development project.
Numerical evaluation of subsurface trickle irrigation with. 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. 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. The salam peace canal project is an irrigation and reclamation project that takes water from the damietta branch of the nile river. Therefore, this paper presents a framework to advance the understanding and opportunities for improving the reuse. This automatic control system acs is able to process data of various flows and water quality data along the canal.
Evaluation of the programme strengthening of national. Microbial and chemical water quality article pdf available. Elsalam canal is a potential project reusing the nile. Elsalam canal takes its supply of water from the right side of damietta tributary at km 219, adlia city before farskour dam that. Constructed by the suez canal company between 1859 and 1869, it officially opened on 17 november 1869. Water free fulltext assessing the agricultural drainage water. As an agricultural canal, the elsalam canal was selected because it is the largest, currently ongoing adw reuse project in egypt. Therefore the elsalam canal project escp was established by the. 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. Only a small portion of the cultivated land located in the western side of suez canal has recently been irrigated by surface drip irrigation.
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. Pdf irrigation water quality evaluation in elsalam canal project. This control system is represented by a canal computer model. The lowest point of the tunnel dewatering point is. 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. Moreover, the two models were applied on elsalam canal considering three. A a satellite image for the canal beginning of the elsalam siphon under suez canal. The sustainable rural sanitation services program for results srssp was effective on december 2015 to support the nrsp in a number of. Pdf elsalam canal is a potential project reusing the. An inscription on a pillar at pithom records that in 270 or 269 bce, it was again reopened, by ptolemy ii philadelphus.
B outline map of elsalam canal development project, showing the course of the canal and the. Pdf elsalam canal is a potential project reusing the nile delta. Elsalam canal project in egypt where agriculture drainage water adw is expected to be reused for irrigation. Elsalam canal is a potential project reusing the nile delta drainage water for sinai desert agriculture. Investigation of elsalam canal project in northern sinai, egypt. Management practices for elsalam canal project, egypt. 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. Elhammam canal and its extension, nw coast of egypt, authorahmed sayed ahmed sayed, year20 ahmed sayed ahmed sayed. 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. It is often considered to define the border between africa and asia. 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. Assessing the agricultural drainage water with water quality. Evaluation of modern irrigation techniques with brackish.
This fresh water gets mixed with drainage water from the egyptian delta, to increase water reuse. Elsalam canal project 50% of the project area is allocated to large investors, 20% to small investors, and 30% to small farmers. This eight station network will be complemented with an automated weather station with a central command centre. The control of such behavior has been challenging and often elusive in practice. 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 lowest point of the tunnel dewatering point is approximately 43 meters under sea level. 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. Holding company distributes, operates, and maintain facilities, and provide onfarm. Assessing the agricultural drainage water with water.
Increasing the effficincy of elsalam canal project. Elsalam canal, regression model, drainage water reuse, water. Papers published in refereed international journals. The distribution of emergent vegetation within the lake has also changed. Production of activated carbon from oil palm empty fruit bunches for. 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. 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. A2 elsalam canal project description elsalam canal project as shown in figure 2 is in the eastern nile delta. In this study, an assessment for a proposed irrigation system in the elsalam canal cultivated land, egypt, was conducted. However after a site visit site in january 2008, nl03 was changed. A real time water quality monitoring network and water. 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. Simulation of water quality for the elsalam canal in egypt.
International journal of ecology and development research. 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. At the onset of the escp, it was assumed that the total drainage water available from hadus and lower serw drains is around 3. It then moves east under the suez canal in some tunnels. Land cover map delineation, for agriculture development. This paper introduces an automation system for elsalam canal to control the flow of the fresh water and drainage water supplied to the canal. Evaluation of the project participatory slum upgrading in elhallous and elbhatini, ismailia, egypt final report. Irrigation water quality evaluation in elsalam canal project. 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. In this respect, elsalam peace canal is considered as a unique project brings the nile water to the eastern deserts of north sinai. Application of remote sensing to site characterisation and. Sadat called his proposed canal alsalam, meaning the peace. Increasing the effficincy of elsalam canal project using.
Pdf evaluation of the land resources for agricultural. Irrigation water quality evaluation in elsalam canal project article pdf available in international journal of advances in engineering sciences and applied mathematics 31. They reclaimed the land for producing fish in large fish ponds and continued doing aquaculture, in spite of government plans for agricultural use. It then moves east and then again south to hadoos drainage. 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. Land cover map delineation, for agriculture development, case. Development of elsalam canal automation system citeseerx. Flood forecasting and warning system for dam operation project ii 16. Jul 30, 2008 desalination 227 2008 274285 elsalaam canal project, sinai ii.
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. Extending al salam canal to the proposed palestinian state. The bridge links the continents of africa and asia. Desalination 227 2008 274285 elsalaam canal project, sinai ii. 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.
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