Regime behavior for alluvial stable Egyptian canals

The design of stable alluvial canals in Egypt is based on regime formulas. These formulas are valid for conditions prevailing before the construction of the High Aswan Dam (HAD), in which the solid suspension was more than 3500 p.p.m. As the regime of Egyptian canals has changed after the construction of HAD (Suspension solid became less than 100 p.p.m.), the design adopted by old regime equations is not satisfactory and a new design concept for the new regime is necessary.In 1982, investigations were carried out in Egypt based on field study on a group of stable alluvial irrigation channels and other collected data from Irrigation Districts and others, from which a series of design formulas for stable canals has been deduced.In this paper a continuation of regime studies have been emphasized by analyzing currently the available field data measurements on thirty alluvial stable channels in Egypt. A more useful relationships have been achieved which may give an approach for a better solution in the scope of stable canal design in Egypt.An investigation of regime theory verifies that the regime formulas of Egyptian Canals are only valid for the limited range of conditions upon which they are based.