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August 25, 2007

Edogawa River (G-Cans) Project

Filed under: Links,Water & Ice — roclar @ 5:40 pm
Japans G-Can Project The G-Cans project, also known as the Edogawa River Project, is Japan’s attempt to prevent Tokyo and its 12 million inhabitants from being washed away by a typhoon. The system of holding tanks, tunnels and pumping devices was featured in a somewhat recent showing of Discovery Channel’s Building the Future program. Linked below is a photo gallery of shots taken of the impressive concrete structures that exist 50m below Tokyo.

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