Dead Sea Works Ltd. mines table salt, bromine and other salts from the Dead Sea, one of the world’s richest mineral deposits. The already completed dam regulates the water level in the mining area. The sealing measures are intended to prevent the dam from being undercut by seawater.

The deep ground is not suitable for mechanical driving work, so the sheet piles and pipe will be “sunk” by their own weight into a specially prepared trench over a length of 18 kilometers. This will create one of the world’s biggest diaphragm walls with inserted sheet pile wall.

Shipments from Bremerhaven in Germany to the Israeli sea ports of Ashdod or Haifa have already started. Deliveries for the project are scheduled for completion at the end of 2012.