The sewerage plant that used to take most of the feed from our area was destroyed by the tsunami. They have connected the system to other purification plants but the overall capacity is insufficient and the engineers are worried about the possibility of sewerage coming out of the manholes. Therefore, as a precaution, they are building this temporary chemical purification site. It is being made from large cloth bags filled with dirt. It is very near my condo, but luckily downstream.
This store was doing business in spite of having a broken window. The boxes contain new goods that have recently arrived by truck.
According to a TV program is saw, the earthquake liquified almost all the land that was less than 10,000 years old. The quake was strong and long. In some places the quake lasted for five minutes. This combination of length and strength turned solid ground to a liquid. One of the effects of this was that underground structures, such as large pipes, rose. In this picture the manhole has pushed up through the road surface. Some one has put white paint on the raised part and a traffic cone on top of everything.
This is the next day and work on the sewerage plant has progressed.
This is a company named Suzuken. I have no idea what they do but this pile of stuff was ripped out of the inside after the ceiling came down during the quake. From what I could see through the windows, they are stripping everything out of the second floor.
This is a temporary repair to the bridge that is in front of Suzuken. The land on the left is now substantially lower than the bridge on the right. The drop has been filled with pavement, however, there is still a large bump. This is a busy, main road so I imagine that eventually permanent repairs will be necessary.
The earthquake situation has improved. Yesterday there were only four M 4+ quakes in all of Japan and they were all deep so we did not feel them. There were a few of lesser magnitude that we could barely feel - short and weak.
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