Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel
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The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel (首都圏外郭放水路 shutoken-gaikaku-housuiro), also known as the G-Cans Project, is an underground water infrastructure project is Kasukabe, Saitama, Japan built for preventing overflow of the city's major waterways and rivers during rain and typhoon seasons.
Work on the project started in 1992; it consists of five concrete containment silos with heights of 65 m and diameters of 32 m, connected by 6.4 km of tunnels, 50 m beneath the surface, as well as a large water tank with a height of 25.4 m, with a length of 177 m, with a width of 78 m, and with 59 massive pillars connected to a number of 10 MW pumps that can pump up to 200 tons of water into the Edogawa River per second.
The G-Cans project is also a tourist attraction, and can be visited for free; however, as the tours are conducted in Japanese, a Japanese speaker must be present in the group to act as a translator for non-Japanese speakers.
[edit] In media
The main water tank resembles a temple and has been used in some movies and TV programs to create mystic scenes. In 2006, a Land Rover television commercial and print campaign was produced using G-Cans as a location.[citation needed]
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Official website (including photos) (Japanese)
- Tour information (English)
- G-Cans Tour Photos (jpdn.net)
Coordinates: 35°59′50″N 139°48′41″E / 35.9973131°N 139.8114753°E
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