Heiwa-ike
Coordinates: 34 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ N , 135 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E
Heiwa-ike ( Japanese. 平和 池 , dt. "Heiwa pond") was a reservoir near Kameoka in the prefecture of Kyoto in Japan.
The reservoir was in the southern mountains of the village of Shino , now a district in the west of Kameoka. The dam of this pond, an earth dam, was built in 1949 on the Toshitani River ( 年 谷川 ), a tributary of the Katsura of the Yodo River system, and was 20 m high.
The dam broke on July 11, 1951. The accident happened after several days of heavy rainfall, as a result of which the dam was flooded. When the dam broke , a tidal wave of water and mud rolled through Shino. 114 people died, 75 in the upstream district of Kasebara alone. Some bodies were not found until years later during excavation work. There was also property damage of 300 million yen.
Web links
- Stillwater Sister Cities Council, published May 20, 2001. (English)
- Changes of the Industry and the disaster in Postwar Japan (English)
- 2011 memorial service to commemorate the 114 dead (Japanese)
- Lessons from Embankment Dam Accidents. An Introduction, V. Perlea, Bucharest, First International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology 1984 [1]
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 日本人 が 忘 れ た が っ た 平和 池水 害 . Yahoo, February 11, 2013, accessed September 24, 2013 .