Groundwater and environmental monitoring at the Hawara Pyramid
In 2020 SpaceEcho installed nine monitoring stations at the Hawara archaeological site in Fayum, Egypt, with the support of international and national organizations. They track groundwater and subsurface water, surface water around the Bahr Wahba canal, and conditions inside and around the pyramid.
Groundwater and environmental monitoring at the Hawara Pyramid
In 2020, SpaceEcho installed nine specialised monitoring stations at the Hawara archaeological heritage site in Fayum, Egypt, with the support of international and national organizations.
Monitoring at the Hawara Pyramid
The challenge
The Hawara Pyramid is threatened by rising groundwater and environmental change that endanger its structure. Protecting it means knowing, continuously, what the water is doing beneath and around it — and how conditions inside the pyramid are changing.
What we installed
Nine stations, spread across the site, each covering one part of the picture.
Groundwater and subsurface water — water-level monitoring across the archaeological zone, tracking subsurface fluctuations.
Inside the pyramid — groundwater levels and environmental conditions, including humidity and temperature.
Surface water — water dynamics around the Bahr Wahba canal.
The surrounding area — environmental and climatic change, and its effect on the pyramid's structure.
The site has a continuous record of groundwater, subsurface water and environmental conditions in and around the pyramid — the data needed to study the site and to plan conservation against water damage.
