Iwate Kamaishi October 18th 19:46 on the new drainage pump station
In the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake, a new drainage pump station was established in Kamaishi City, Iwate Prefecture, as a countermeasure for flooding in urban areas. Water was not carried to the pumping station, overflowing from the waterway, and it was found that flood damage was spreading.
In Kamaishi City, which has often suffered from inundation due to the occurrence of land subsidence due to the Great East Japan Earthquake, a new drainage pump station was set up in June over approximately 4.6 billion yen as a countermeasure against flooding in urban areas.
However, because the inundation damage spread in the city area even in this typhoon, the city investigated and earth and sand and driftwood flowed into multiple waterways in the city area, so a large amount of water was not carried to the pumping station, overflowing from the waterway and flooding damage I found out that was expanding.
There was some water drained by the pumping station, but the city said that if the pumping station was able to bring water to the pumping station and operate at full capacity, flood damage would not spread.
Hiroshi Oikawa, head of the pump station, said, “If we don't think about measures against earth and sand, the meaning of creating a pump station will be too much, so we want to consider what we can do.”