Fujinuma Dam

Broke on 11 March 2011

The Fujinuma Dam (Japanese藤沼 ダム, Fujinuma - damu ) was a 1949 finished dam in Sukagawa, Fukushima Prefecture in Japan. He stood at the Ebana -gawa (江 花 川), a tributary of the Abukuma 16 km west of the town hall of Sukagawa. The main purpose of the dam was irrigation. The dam broke on 11 March 2011 as a result of the Tōhoku earthquake.

The reservoir was as Fujinuma reservoir (藤 沼 贮 水池, Fujinuma - chosuichi ) or Fujinuma Lake (藤 沼 湖, Fujinuma -ko ) means.

Building

The dam was a 17.5 m high and 133 m long rockfill dam with a building volume of 99,000 m³. The dam stood at the end of a 8.8 km ² catchment area and the reservoir had a capacity of 1.504 million cubic meters with an equally large work space. The dam had been a water surface area of ​​20 ha The dam of Shoji KK Kensetsu been built and (江 花 川 沿岸 土地 改良 区, Ebana -gawa engan tochikairyōku ) operated by the land development project Ebana Riverside.

Breach in the dike

On 11 March 2011, the dam broke as a result of the Tohoku earthquake. Residents reported that they heard a loud noise before they saw a tidal wave. The flood washed away five houses and damaged another, damaged a bridge and blocked roads with debris. Eight people were missing and four bodies were after a search that began after daybreak, found.

On 12 March 252 dams were inspected and seven of which are found damaged. Six Embankment dams had shallow cracks on their crowns dam and the reservoir of a concrete gravity dam had a slight slope failure on. Four dams including Fujinuma were inaccessible and could not be inspected. Once the roads were cleared again, should take place more inspections.