Japan's Bridges: Wastewater Treatment Bridge in Miyagi Prefecture

June 2011 (38.250 Degrees, 141.004 Degrees) Wastewater Treatment Plant Bridge

Continuing east, we visited a wastewater treatment plant (just south of the Nanakitagawa) that was damaged by the tsunami. Their facilities include an interesting tied arch bridge that crosses the inland waterway near the coast. The bridge was undamaged by the tsunami but some concrete buildings facing the ocean had spectacular damage.

After the earthquake all the workers climbed onto the roof of the building (behind the bridge) and filmed the tsunami. There were many oohs and aahs as the huge waves crashed over the top of the facilities. If it wasn't so awful, it would have been like watching a fireworks display.

Japan's Bridges: Wastewater Treatment Bridge in Miyagi Prefecture by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.