the contractor placing sandbags in Tama River

Large Sandbags Installed Along the Tama River to Prevent Flood

In the wake of the flooding season, large sandbags is set up along the Tama River in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo to prevent new damage, before the flood season.

In October last year, Typhoon No. 19 caused the water level of the Tama River to rise, flooding the river water in a part of the Setagaya Ward where there was no embankment, and the surrounding houses were inundated.

In response to this, the district that manages the Tama River has begun work to install large sandbags in a place without a levee before the flood season. Each sandbag is 1 meter high and weighs about 2 tons. On the morning of the 26th, a contractor hired placed sandbags on a staircase to descend to a riverbed damaged by a typhoon last year.

And then at Southwest of Futakotamagawa Station, just a few minutes walk along the Tama River. A 30-year-old man who works near the office said, “I sometimes thought that it would be dangerous to have a flooded river on a heavy rainy day”. In the autumn of 2007, it was said to be “at risk of flooding”, and evacuation advice was issued to about 1500 people of 740 households in the surrounding area.

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