It has been confirmed that a council will be formed by local governments and others to formulate a plan within the fiscal year for watersheds such as Nakayama Town, which was the first in the prefecture to be designated as a “specified urban river” where the national government focuses on flood control measures.
Four years ago, in July 2020, record-breaking heavy rains caused the Ishikozawa River and Shinhori River, which flow through Nakayama Town, to overflow, causing major damage, including over 100 homes being flooded.
Last month, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism designated two overflowing rivers as “specified urban rivers” for the first time in the prefecture, focusing on flood control measures, and on the 24th, a council formed by the prefecture and the towns of Nakayama and Yamabe in the basin was launched. Did.
Yasuki Kamimori, Deputy Director-General of the Tohoku Regional Development Bureau, opened the meeting by saying, “We would like to work to further promote basin flood control that protects the region and disseminate it throughout the country.”
Next, as future flood disaster countermeasures, we will develop facilities that collect rainwater to suppress the rise in river water levels, guide residential areas to areas with low disaster risk, and install more small sensors to detect flooding. Efforts were introduced to help facilitate early evacuation.
After this, the future schedule was presented, and it was confirmed that they aim to formulate a plan for flood disaster prevention measures in the basin by the end of the fiscal year.
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