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Abstract The sediment load carried by the nile during the flood season, was the main source of forming the two promontories of Damietta and rosetta. During the past, the balance between the sediment carried away from the shore and the sediment supplied by the nile seemed to favor accretion on the coast. This was the main reason to make the rosetta branch of the river nile to be protruded seaward. Since the erection of the aswan high dam almost no sediment has been discharged from the nile. This creats unstability and making the entire coast vulnerable to severe erosion. |