Faylakah. Apparently brackish drainage water from Khawr as Sabiniyan 

 and/ or Shatt al Arab reaches the area here and reduces the gulf 

 surface salinity from its normal value of about 40 %o to about 38 %o. 

 Even though rainfall is meager in this area (4 to 11 inches annually), 

 most of the precipitation can be expected during the months of January 

 and February. It is reasonable then to expect salinities in the extreme 

 eastern portion of Kuwait Harbor (in the vicinity of Jazirat Faylakah) 

 to be reduced slightly below the indicated surface values which were 

 observed during a period of no rainfall. Salinities of 39 %o or less 

 extending into Kuwait Harbor would be most unusual, because the 

 tides produce strong currents between RasalArdhand Jazirat Faylakah 

 that effectively mix the surface waters every few hours. 



As would be expected salinity values at depth are nearly the same 

 or slightly higher than the surface values. Even the greatest difference 

 between the surface and bottom is hardly significant; at the harbor 

 entrance (Station 12) a gradient of only 0.4 %o is observed through 

 a 12-foot depth. 



IV. Currents 



The locations of current stations and nearshore current observations 

 made in and near Kuwait Harbor are shown in Figure 9. Even though 

 some current stations were not of sufficient duration to provide a 

 total picture of the current regime for a particular locale, they are 

 included in the summary of observations which appears in Table III. 

 Other environmental items considered noteworthy have been selected 

 from the data logs and are annotated under the station data to which 

 they are related. 



For all current stations, a Price meter was used to obtain data at 

 the surface and an Ekman meter to obtain data at subsurface levels. 

 All nearshore currents (off the beaches south of Ras al Ardh) were 

 recorded with a Price meter. The results of these observations are 

 contained in Table IV. Current observations using "current poles" 

 and "chips" were made at several other locations, but the data were 

 never reduced. 



A few descriptive notations that offer additional information have 

 been selected from the observation logs and are quoted here since 

 they do not appear to apply specifically to any one current station 

 observation series. 



"During a survey along the northwest beach (Beach No. 

 1, Fig. 9) at Faylakah Island on 22-24 November 1948, it 



