Description
Mount Fuji Sabo works - Inokubo-kawa Kikan Sabo system. Slit check dam, view from the right bank on 1 Nov. 2001. Note the 6 openings (flow from left to right). The Inokubo stream is located on the Western slope of Mt Fuji, close to Osawa-gawa and Urui river. A major debris retention system, called Inokubo-kawa Kikan, was in construction in Nov. 2001. The system includes a flat, wide flood plain area to store large material and a slit check dam downstream. The slit check dam is 104 m wide and 7 m high.