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Toward a Dynamic Stability of Coastal Zone at Rosetta Promontory, Egypt

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Rosetta promontory, Egypt, experiences coastal problems such as severe erosion along the shoreline and siltation problem at the outlet. This is due to the lack of water and sediment resources as a side effect of constructing the High Aswan Dam (HAD) and other water control structures along the Nile River. The shoaling inside the outlet leads to hindering the navigation process of fishing boats and negative impacts to estuarine and salt marsh habitat and decrease the efficiency of the cross section to transfer the flow during emergencies to the sea. Although protection works have been constructed to mitigate shoreline erosion and a frequent dredging has been carried out to overcome the siltation problem inside the outlet, the situation is still unstable as there is no enough attention to the severe erosion in front of the seawalls and that dredging causes instability in River Nile abatement. An integrated solution for both problems has not been achieved yet.

This study investigates different alternatives of hard and soft measures attempting to find an optimal solution for these problems (erosion and accretion) to enhance the stability of the promontory. The used integrated approach includes developing a calibrated/validated hydrodynamic and particle tracking model based on the 2D Coastal Modeling System software package (CMS).

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, Irrigation and Hydraulics Department, Mansoura University, 60 Elgomhoria st., Mansoura, 35516, Egypt

    Ali Masria

  2. Department of Water and Water Structure Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

    Abdelazim Negm

  3. Department of Environmental Engineering, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology E-JUST, New Borg El-Arab, Alexandria, Egypt

    Abdelazim Negm

  4. Coastal Research Institute, Alexandria, Egypt

    Moheb Iskander

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Masria, A., Negm, A., Iskander, M. (2016). Toward a Dynamic Stability of Coastal Zone at Rosetta Promontory, Egypt. In: Negm, A. (eds) The Nile River. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 56. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2016_104

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