Heavy rain “Preliminary release” at 32 dams nationwide The effect is also Chief Cabinet Secretary July 10 18:52
At the news conference in the afternoon, Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga conducted a "pre-release" using the existing dams at 32 dams nationwide at this time due to the heavy rain this time regarding "pre-release" when flood risk is expected As a result, regarding the effect, ``The heavy rain is still continuing, and the effect of discharge in various places will be verified in the future, but in the Kiso River system, for example, the Makio Dam in Nagano Prefecture will give a “preliminary discharge”. What we have done and we have secured a total of 42 million tons of water that can be used for flood damage control at eight dams, and we have controlled the amount of discharge. I have received reports that it was there."