Arakawa is inundated at the flood level Saitama Kumagaya observation station on October 12 at 16:52
According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and the Japan Meteorological Agency, Arakawa, which flows through Saitama Prefecture, has reached the “flooding dangerous water level”, which is a standard for issuing evacuation advisories at around 4 pm at an observation station in Kumagaya City.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and the Japan Meteorological Agency have issued “inundation risk information” and have called for caution in a wide range of basins such as Saitama City and Kawaguchi City because there is a risk of inundation due to the bank breakage of Arakawa.