Mobility and Fate of Pollutants in the Aquifer System of the Northwestern Suez Gulf, Egypt

Abstract

The northwestern part of Suez Gulf region is a strategic area in Egypt. It includes important sources of national income. To achieve the development goals, the government has established huge projects in this area (e.g. establishment and expanding of a large commercial port at Ain Sokhna, many industrial zones as well as tourism projects). The utilization of the Suez Gulf resources and their continuing development mainly depend on the creation of actual pollution control programs. The environmental quality control and pollution reduction activities are important ingredients of any economic development program. These different activities in this area depend mainly on the groundwater that is pumped intensively from different water bearing formations or aquifers. The main objective of the present work is compiling the previous studies from the 1980s up to 2015. These studies are concerned with estimating the concentrations of different pollutants in various ecosystems in the northwestern Suez Gulf region. Also, to provide an explanation for the movement of different pollutants such as organic and heavy metals from contaminated land to ground and surface (Gulf) waters. This issue has not been extensively surveyed before, and this review, gives specific directions for future monitoring and remediation strategies in this region.

Evaluation of Physical and Geomechanical characteristics at a Steel Rolling Factory at Ataqa industrial zone, Suez, Egypt using Seismic Methods

“…Faults are the main structures (Fig. 2) which are of a major role while folding is of minor role Snousy et al [11]. Northwestern-Southeastern faults are mainly of the gravity type and the most common set of faults in the area, which are characterized by relatively small dip angles.…”

“…Several relationships were established between the primary wave velocity and N value. In this study, the empirical equation stated by Bery and Saad [28] is used for N value estimation as follows: VP = 23.605 N − 160.43 (11).…”

To investigate groundwater potentiality, a GIS-based model was integrated with remote sensing data in the Northwest Gulf of Suez (Egypt)

“…The linear combination of integrated thematic layers predominates in the GIS program raster files, and these files are given a composite map (Abdalla 2012). Under numerous circumstances, groundwater aquifers exist in the northern portion of the Gulf of Suez, indicating lithological, structural, and topographical variations (Snousy et al 2016). However, groundwater provides water as the principal supply for domestic and industrial uses.…”

Assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in surface sediments and some fish species from the Gulf of Suez, Egypt.

“…Lovers of seafood from all walks of life can be found surfing through the colorful variety of meat that offered from Red Sea (Said et al 2006;Younis et al, 2015). In the recent years, the Egyptian government has constructed many projects around the northwestern of Suez gulf area through the planning of development for future economic (Snousy et al, 2016). These projects such as petroleum refining industries, shipyard, marinas, power stations, fertilizer, chemical industries, pipelines and establish the commercial harbors close to the industrial zone.…”

“…These projects such as petroleum refining industries, shipyard, marinas, power stations, fertilizer, chemical industries, pipelines and establish the commercial harbors close to the industrial zone. Therefore, the Gulf of Suez coastal water exposed daily to high loads of oil wastes as well as various other anthropogenic discharges from the surrounding industrial areas (Nemr et al, 2006;Snousy et al, 2016).…”