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2. ADAPTATION OPTIONS Based on the work undertaken by Egyptian researchers at the Coastal Research Institute (CoRI), practitioners at the Shore Protection Authority (SPA) and indigenous people in the Nile Delta, the ACCNDP constructed a number of flexible (soft) dike options. Those options are mainly built from local material to protect the Nile Delta such as sand fences to capture sand blown by wind to accumulate and build sand dunes and dikes with clay and geo-tube cores. These options were constructed at a low laying pilot location between Rasheed (or Rosetta) and El-Burulus. This location was selected based on a survey that was undertaken for the whole area (a length of 60km and a depth of 0.5km) [2]. The construction started in November 2015 and completed in April 2016. The layout of three options is shown in Fig. 1. In the following sections, a description of each option is given. Fig. 1 Site layout 2.1. SAND FENCES DIKE This option was selected based on the consultation that was undertaken by the project with the local people in the Nile Delta. They use wooden fences to capture the sand that is blown by the wind to build natural sand dunes around their land and properties to protect them from inundation from the sea (See Fig. 2Fig. 5). This option was designed by researchers at CoRI and practitioners at SPA according to the Egyptian standards with a length of 250 m and as shown in Fig. 3. 1281