Minamiboso City, Chiba Prefecture, which had been at risk of water outages due to the decline in the water storage rate of the dam, canceled the call to residents to save water, saying that the water storage rate had recovered sufficiently due to the rain that began on the 26th.
In Minamiboso City, the water storage rate dropped to 30% last month and the water supply was cut off due to the continued low rain after the water storage rate was lowered and the water gate was constructed at the Komukai dam, which is the water source last fall. I was afraid.
The city has continued to call on residents to save water and discharge water to the dam by sprinklers during the year-end and New Year holidays, but it rained 65 mm from the 26th to the 27th, and the water storage rate on the 28th was 84%. Recovered to.
For this reason, the city disbanded the drought countermeasures headquarters, saying that the water storage rate had recovered sufficiently, and lifted the call for water conservation to the residents.
Mayor Yutaka Ishii of Minamiboso City said at a press conference on the 28th, "I would like to thank a large number of people for their cooperation so that the water supply will not be cut off. I would like to consider securing a secondary water source in preparation for possible droughts in the future. ".