Hydrogeophysical Investigations at El-Nubariya-Wadi El-Natrun Area, West Nile Delta, Egypt

Establishing new communities is one of the strategic plans of the Egyptian government during the last decades. One of the targeted localities for such plan is the West Nile Delta area where it is considered as a promising area for creating new settlements. The area under investigation is located to the west of Nile Delta on both sides of the Cairo-Alexandria desert road, between latitudes 30° 17′ and 30° 42′ N and longitudes 30° 00′ and 30° 30′ E. It covers an area of about 1,825 km2. To help such national plan, the present study aims to delineate the hydrogeological regime of the study area through qualitative and quantitative interpretation of the available electrical and electromagnetic data.