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  Surprising Sewerage  
Systematic rebuilding / updates

  About 5,000 cave-in accidents per year occur due to deterioration of sewage pipes. As such, one issue to countermeasures against the deterioration of sewage facilities
  Systematic rebuilding / updates are indispensable in order to maintain sewer functions and to prevent unexpected situations due to breakdown of facilities

  Status of superannuated pipe and cave-in accidents

Visuals by TV camera Hollowing out below pavement due to sediment drawn in through cracks Ginza Takanawa
Visuals by TV camera       Ginza   Takanawa
Age deterioration  
Great increase in places where road cave-ins have taken place due to massive increase in sewer pipe and drain extensions


  No. of road cave-in accidents caused by pipe and drain extensions and sewerage

No. of road cave-in accidents caused by pipe and drain extensions and sewerage


  Low-cost countermeasures (pipe and drain interior coating of plastic materials)

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