Edo River

Edogawa at Nagareyama, Chiba Prefecture

The Edo (江 戸 川Japanese, Edo -gawa ) is a tributary of the clays in the Kantō region on the main Japanese island of Honshu.

Course

The Edo divided from the level of the districts Goka and Sakai Sashima the city in Ibaraki prefecture on clays and runs south to the Bay of Tokyo. Its course forms the borders of the prefectures of Ibaraki, Saitama, Chiba and Tokyo.

Flooding

For the most severe flooding in recent history, it came as a result of Typhoon Kathleen in 1947. Due to dam failures 80,000 acres in the area of Katsushika and Noda were flooded for a period of nine months. Since then, the security has improved significantly by dikes, however, not least because of lying in the catchment area of ​​the river and developed over the decades residential areas. Nevertheless, it came as a result of typhoons repeatedly flooding by dikes, especially in the city of Matsudo, of which several thousand homes were affected.

Legal status

The Japanese River Law referred to as the Edo River 1st degree.