Green Light For Japan's Largest Dam

[Mulboyne]

[floatr][/floatr]Kyodo via Yahoo: Court rejects appeal to halt project to build Japan's largest dam
The Nagoya High Court rejected Thursday an appeal local residents had filed seeking to scrap a state project to build what would become Japan's largest dam. The high court supported a December 2003 district court ruling that rejected the residents' lawsuits against the construction of the Tokuyama Dam in Ibigawa, Gifu Prefecture. In suits filed in March 1999 and July 2001, the residents maintained estimated water demand in the area is more than actual demand...The state and Gifu Prefecture argued that a dam project should be based on long-term water demand. The dam project began in 1957. With the construction of the main part completed in December 2005, it is expected to begin operating in fiscal 2007...more...

[mr. sparkle]

You mean there's a river in Japan that's not been dammed up yet? I don't believe it.

[dimwit]

You mean there's a river in Japan that's not been dammed up yet? I don't believe it.

There are a few but I doubt there is one that hasn't been channellized.



Another dream sightseeing spot

[mr. sparkle]

Concretizing the river beds of Japanese rivers and streams should be classified as a crime against humanity.

I just went fishing for the wily trout in the Stanislaus River (Sierras) a couple of weeks ago. Thank God we don't do that.

Concrete Suxx!

[dimwit]

Concretizing the river beds of Japanese rivers and streams should be classified as a crime against humanity.

I just went fishing for the wily trout in the Stanislaus River (Sierras) a couple of weeks ago. Thank God we don't do that.

Concrete Suxx!

Most of the ideas of coastal and fluvial engineering employed here were developed in England and America in the 1950's so we shouldn't be so complacent.

Dams however are perhaps the most popular type of public work amongst construction companies in Japan. The use vast amounts of concrete and require huge amounts of excavation.

Like in Nagoya, they are trying build a second dam out here in Matsuyama on the pretext of water shortages and the same flawed logic of continued growth is being used to promote the project. My own calcations of the water situation here is that it would require two months without a drop of rain in the rainy season combined with no cut back in agricultural usage to produce a bonafide crisis, at which point the water from an additional dam would have half evaporated due the dryness of the conditions.