The Oued Meboudja is a
wadi
Wadi ( ar, وَادِي, wādī), alternatively ''wād'' ( ar, وَاد), North African Arabic Oued, is the Arabic term traditionally referring to a valley. In some instances, it may refer to a wet (ephemeral) riverbed that contains water ...
in Algeria.
Location
The wadi is a left tributary of the
Seybouse River
Seybouse (in arq, rtl=yes, وادي سيبوس, Oued Seybouse) is a river in northeastern Algeria, near the border with Tunisia. In Roman times, it was called the ''Ubus''.
Course
The river runs for about , flowing through Guelma and Annaba Prov ...
, which it joins near
El Hadjar
El Hadjar is a town in north-eastern Algeria
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to the south of the industrial center of
Annaba
Annaba ( ar, عنّابة, "Place of the Jujubes"; ber, Aânavaen), formerly known as Bon, Bona and Bône, is a seaport city in the northeastern corner of Algeria, close to the border with Tunisia. Annaba is near the small Seybouse River ...
.
Human impact
In 1877 the
Société Mokta El Hadid mining company gained permission to drain the
Lake of Fetzara in exchange for free transfer of the reclaimed land.
A channel led from the center of the lake, crossed the western flank and led to the Oued Meboudja.
The surface elevation had dropped to by 1880, but the lake remained swampy in summer.
In May 2007 it was reported that farmers who used the waters of the wadi to irrigate their lands were greatly concerned about pollution.
A study published in 2013 found that the El Hadjar iron and steel works was discharging metallic pollution into the wadi, with unacceptably high levels of copper and varying concentrations of iron, chromium and nickel.
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Rivers of Algeria