In Numata Town, Hokkaido, about 400 tons of snow was put into the snow room to store the snow used for cooling public facilities and storing vegetables for a long time.
In Numata-cho, which has a lot of snow in Hokkaido, it may snow more than 10 meters in one winter due to the terrain where the moist wind from the Sea of Japan hits the mountains.
The town is promoting an initiative called "snow-making" that makes effective use of "troublesome" snow as a resource, and on the 4th, work was done to put the snow in the snow room owned by the town.
About 400 tons of snow collected in the parking lot by a contractor commissioned by the town was put into a storage room 8 meters wide, 14 meters deep and 8.5 meters high using a snowplow.
Snow is used for cooling public facilities such as libraries adjacent to the snow room, and is also used for long-term storage of vegetables such as rice and potatoes entrusted to us by the townspeople.
Isao Ito, director of the Snow Technology Development Center of the Numata Town Agriculture Promotion Division, said, "Cooling with snow that does not use electricity is environmentally friendly and contributes to decarbonization. I want to go. "