Joso flood damage overview

Joso city has made the document: Joso disaster situation by September 2015 Kanto and Tohoku heavy rain.

The total damage costs are still being calculated as the Japanese fiscal year runs until April, but below a translated overview of the gathered damages so far can be found (click to enlarge).

1. Situation on housing damage

Destroyed: 50 buildings

Large scale partial destruction: 914 buildings

Partial destruction: 2,773 buildings

Flooded under the floor: 2,264 buildings

2.  Status of Refugees

	Initially (11 September)		Current (16 November)
	Number of Locations	The number of evacuees	Number of Locations	The number of evacuees
Inside city	26	4,501	6	209
Outside city	13	1,722	x	x
Total	39	6,223	6	209

3. Lifelines

Electrical

Initially: City flooded area power outage (11,200 households)

Current: Full recovery

Water

Initially: 11,800 places

Current: Full recovery

(9/21 19:00 provisional restoration)

Roads

Initially: National Route 354, Route 357: The main trunk line whole line closed to traffic

Current: Transportation deregulation except some (General prefectural road)

Railroads

Initially: Jōsō Line: whole line suspended service

Current: 10/10 whole line opening, 11/16 to the normal service

※ Mitsukaido ~ Shimotsuma one hour interval suspended service

※ Shimotsuma station - Shimodate Station (9/14 Resume)

※ between Toride Station - Mitsukaido Station (9/18 Resume)

4. Agricultural damages

Damage costs total 7.55 billion yen

	Damage amount	Damage area
Agricultural products, etc. (Paddy rice, cucumber, etc.)	1,380,335,000 yen	1,402.4ha

	Damage amount	Damage quantity	Damage number of houses
Post-harvest storage rice	232,347,000 yen	1,092 tons	540

	Damage amount	Damage number	Damage number of houses
Agricultural machinery (Tractors, combine harvesters, etc.)	2,849,192,000 yen	1,092	406

	Damage amount
Livestock and livestock products (Chicken, etc.)	323,000 yen

	Damage amount	Damage number
Joint-use facility (Grain elevator, low Temperature warehouse, rice milling centers, etc.)	522,000,000 yen	9

	Amount	Locations
Farmland	805,100,000 yen	11
Agricultural facility (Waterway, pumping stations, rural roads, etc.)	1,525,400,000 yen	77
Agricultural settlement drainage	200,000,000 yen	2
Total	2,530,500,000 yen	90

5. Commercial businesses

Small and medium-sized enterprises damage (stored equipment, fixtures, warehouses, etc.)

16.97 billion yen

6. Disaster Waste

Total waste (estimates)

Trash: 93,538 tons

Human waste: 61 kL

7. Disaster Volunteer Activities

Accepted number of volunteers: 38,932 people

Result of activities: 5,562 activities