Investigations of Groundwater and Soil Specification at AL-Warrar Canal Reach, Ramadi City-Iraq

Abstract

Abstract The study area is located in Anbar Governorate, western Iraq, within the city of Ramadi, in the area adjacent to Al-Warrar Canal. The study area suffers from a lack of previous hydraulically studies, hydrological, the geological, and topographical characteristic and the soil characteristics, also suffers from a significant increasing in levels of groundwater. Three wells were drilled in area adjacent of the Al-Warrar canal with a diameter of 0.1524m, 10m in depth and 100 m the distance between each well, to observe water level of the groundwater with the change in the levels in Al-Warrar canal. The physical properties of soil, as well as their chemical properties, were studied in order to straighten. According to these tests, the soil of the study area was found to have a high concentration of sulfite, gypsum, salts and moisture content in the upper layers of clayey sand and clay, with low plasticity. As well as the increase of level in Al Warrar Canal water leading to an increase the hydraulic heads in the groundwater level in the area of study. Depending on the two possibilities were taken for the movement and transmission of groundwater, one of which is the movement of groundwater from the study area to Al Warrar Canal and the other is groundwater movement from the canal to the study area depending on the increase and decrease in the water level of Al Warrar Canal.