地域との協働による多様性に富んだ堤防植生づくりと維持管理「七草堤防プロジェクト」について

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Mostly performed by junior high schools in around the lower reaches of Tone River, with the consideration of maintaining embankment’s flood control function, and also as the first experimental trial in Japan, NANAKUSA embankment project planted the region’s traditional plants on several parts of the embankment which is suffered by the Great East Japan Earthquake and has recovered, to realize an embankment vegetation with specific diversity and “feel of Japan’s four season”, implement maintenance works under the cooperation between governmental sector and citizens. As a result, it can be said this project has become an important milestones for future river management by helping citizens feel rivers more closely, fostering attachment to their hometown and raising public awareness of disaster prevention.