additive to treat the gypseous soil, the treatment causes a decrease in the rate of dissolved gypsum upon leaching. While the shear strength and its parameters were unaffected upon leaching. Moreover, the treated unleached samples showed a decrease in compressibility characteristics. lime stabilization effects include: reduction on soil plasticity, increase in optimum moisture content, decrease in maximum dry density, improvement in compaction of soil, reduction of the soil capacity to swell and shrink, and improvement in the CBR value of the soil (National lime Association, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟔)[𝟗] .