Tokyo, Jan. 11.
Cutting of a 27-kilometre waterway near Tokyo and reclaiming 5,700 acres of'land ata cost of Y-30,000,00 will be started in April the Ministry of Interior announced today. The project will take 15 years to complete.
The canal will be built from the iron-bridge at Torite in Ibaraki Prefecture to Funabashi in Chiba Prefecture and will drain the surplus water of the Tone River into Tokyo Bay, This Was expected to prevent ood, disasters in thie Kanto district fie canal will be from 140 to 300 metres wide.
Reclamation work, using dirt re-moyed to dig the canal, will be along the shore of Tokyo Bay from Funahoshi to the city of Chiba. After this work is completed, 10,000-ton vessels will be able to berth along the shore.
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