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