LOWERING GROUNDWATER IN THE ARCHAELOGICAL BABYLON CITY USING UNDERGROUND DAMS

In this study a mathematical model used to simulate the groundwater lowering in the Ancient Babylon City, located 90 kilometres south of the capital Baghdad , Iraq. The solution proposed within this study is constructing of subground in addition to use 21 discharging wells with (45)m depth distributed around the study area, which covers about (11) km 2 Four scenarios are presented basing on the number and location of subground dams used. For each scenario, wells discharge and time of operation are varied and the results were analyzed. The results showed that installing of subground dam effects significantly groundwater elevations in the studied region and reduce time and efforts required to lower the Ancient Babylon City.