Impact of Dead Sea Halo-Karst Development on an Earthen Dike Rehabilitation Project

From the 1970s, Dead Sea experienced severe halo-karstification and anthropogenic modifications. Progressively, but at an accelerating rate, subsidence, landslides, sinkholes have increased in number magnitude. The hazards’ triggering factors are terminal lake level lowering more than one meter per year dynamic equilibrium of hydrogeological system. Over Lisan peninsula, archived satellite images revealed extent damaged areas. On 22 March 2000, destruction dike 19 represented a loss 38 M USD. This is most important event recorded since beginning recession some 50 years ago. In 2018, rehabilitation project that started. research analyses viability reinstatement works. advanced space borne radar interferometry technique applied to map ground deformations before during project. article reveals ongoing works threatened by processes. Field observations subsidence/uplift dynamics support this statement. past experiences taken into consideration adapt industrial expansion strategies. However, permeability salt pan floor could trigger fast development karst system able destroy rehabilitated 19.