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ASSESSMENT OF FLASH FLOOD “APRIL 2018” AND ITS EFFECT ON WADI DEGLA AND WADI EL-HALAZOUNI - EAST CAIRO - EGYPT

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Abstract

Integrated Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing technology with an improved Soil Conservation Service curve number model were applied to analyze and assess the characteristics and impacts of the rainfall storm occurred at April 2018 in East Cairo. In addition, evaluating the effects of land use changes and urbanization on surface runoff is one of the main objectives in this study. Wadi Degla (195 km2) and Wadi El-Halazouni (48 km2),were selected for this study. The morphometric analysis revealedthat, Wadi Degla and Wadi El-Halazouni have elongated shape and lower peak runoff of longer duration over its area. The return period calculations revealed that the storm of April 2018 may be happened only every 67 years. The HEC-HMSsoftware is applied to estimate the peak discharge and runoff volume for two different cases (rural case at 1984 and urban case at 2018). The results revealed that the runoff volume of Wadi El-Halazouni attains about 252.3 x 10m3and 416.7 x 10m3for rural case and urban case, respectively. For Wadi Degla the runoff volume in rural case was estimated as 1434.6 x 10m3, while in urban case it is reached about 1570.4 x 10m3indicating more runoff volume of urban case than the rural case. It is recommended, in Wadi El-Halazouni catchment, to construct a rainwater drainage system to collect the rainfall water and use it for irrigation. In Wadi Degla, construction of storage dams along its main trunk is necessary to protect the urban area in the Delta of the wadi from the occasionally flash flood risk.

DOI

10.21608/ejdr.2020.24550.1070

Keywords

rural and urban areas, rainfall-runoff relationship, Remote Sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), Hydrological model

Authors

First Name

Nahla

Last Name

Morad

MiddleName

Abd El-Moneim

Affiliation

Department of Hydrology, Desert Research Center, El-Matareya, Cairo, Egypt

Email

nahlamorad@hotmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

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First Name

Nemaat

Last Name

Youssef

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Geology, Desert Research Center, El-Matareya, Cairo, Egypt

Email

nemat.yousef@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

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First Name

Sawsan

Last Name

Ibrahem

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-

Affiliation

Department of Hydrology, Desert Research Center, El-Matareya, Cairo, Egypt

Email

sawsanmoselhy@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

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-

Volume

70

Article Issue

1

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16347

Issue Date

2020-06-01

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2020-02-23

Publish Date

2020-06-01

Page Start

25

Page End

57

Print ISSN

1687-8043

Online ISSN

2356-9875

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https://ejdr.journals.ekb.eg/article_108102.html

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117

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Egyptian Journal of Desert Research

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https://ejdr.journals.ekb.eg/

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ASSESSMENT OF FLASH FLOOD “APRIL 2018” AND ITS EFFECT ON WADI DEGLA AND WADI EL-HALAZOUNI - EAST CAIRO - EGYPT

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22 Jan 2023