Project record

Kitchener Drain rehabilitation and Samatay-Hamoul pumping stations

Participation
Requires review
Participation checked

Drain and bank works reported in execution in January 2026; Samatay-Hamoul evaluation complete with award order in preparation in September, followed by an October procurement review

Participation source

Kitchener rehabilitation combines drain dredging and bank protection with separately procured pumping works. Dated MWRI progress records and the original environmental controls support a reach-level handover linking repaired banks, excavation limits and pumping interfaces.

Historical geomorphological map of the Kitchener Drain study area showing the drain, Mediterranean Sea, Burullus Lake and mapped landform units

Map: Ehab Hendawy, Abdel-Aziz Belal, Nazih Y. Rebouh, Mohamed S. Shokr, Abd El Aziz S. Sheta, Ahmed M. Saleh and Ayman F. Abou-Hadid (2025), Figure 6, PLOS One, CC BY 4.0. Full figure JPEG-compressed by IMWO; legend, boundaries and labels retained. Red outline marks the research area.

Location

Egypt / Africa

Segment

Agricultural drain rehabilitation, bank protection and pumping stations

Phase

Construction / Confirmed

Last checked

4 November 2026

Coverage

Related sectors

Agricultural drain rehabilitation, bank protection and pumping stations is the primary work classification. Related sectors connect this record to adjacent marine delivery and market coverage.

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Project anatomy

Contract scope and delivery roles

Client / authority
Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI); drainage implementation: Egyptian Public Authority for Drainage Projects (EPADP); pumping implementation: Mechanical and Electrical Department (MED)
Procurement references
EBRD 49417; ECEPP PP1 32012619; ECEPP addendum 41669641
Delivery parties
Work-package contractors are unspecified in the cited MWRI progress accounts.
Contract route
EBRD 49417; ECEPP PP1 32012619; ECEPP addendum 41669641. PP1 was advertised as an open two-stage works procurement for replacement stations at Samatay, km57.5, and Hamoul, km2.5. The indexed 9 December 2025 addendum extends Stage 2 to 13 January 2026, without a time or timezone in that text. The September 2026 official account reports completed evaluation and preparation of the award order. Current participation requires the controlling package record.
Execution window
The January 2026 drain-work progress account, September 2026 evaluation/award-preparation account and October 2026 procurement review describe different workstreams and dates. Pump commissioning and programme completion await package-specific records.
Works package
EBRD project 49417: dredging and drainage rehabilitation, replacement or rehabilitation of pumping stations, Omar Bek diversion and flow/water-quality monitoring. MWRI's January 2026 account reports two dredging/weed-removal packages and two bank-rehabilitation packages in execution, with stone pitching and a retaining wall. PP1 Samatay-Hamoul is a distinct pumping package.
Marine interfaces
The drain discharges toward the Mediterranean. MWRI's 8 November 2025 account discusses lower Kitchener at Al Khashaa weir and drains ending at Lake Burullus. It identifies storm-period sea-level rise as a constraint at drain outfalls, raising upstream and subsidiary-drain levels. Station and channel design needs the relevant receiving-water boundary for each connection.
Commercial evidence boundary
The October 2018 environmental summary calls for dredging methods that avoid undermining banks and saturated spoil loading on bank crests. EBRD's July 2019 appraisal describes possible processed-material reuse and separate disposal. Pricing depends on the issued excavation envelope, processing area, material acceptance and disposal provisions, and access beside the bank repairs.

Evidence gap

What remains unverified

Outstanding evidence

  • Reach-specific bank-protection drawings, dredging limits and post-work cross-sections
  • Issued Samatay and Hamoul interfaces, award records and commissioning provisions
  • Dredged-material classification, processing areas and authorised reuse or disposal routes

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Reporting status

Project phase
Construction
Evidence confidence
Confirmed
Last checked
4 November 2026
Cited sources
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