Moiwa Power Plant and Shusuiseki

Rare rolling gate

Original Text

It is an active facility completed in 1945 with the purpose of supplying electricity and water raw water in the Sapporo area using the river water of the Toyohira River that flows through the city of Sapporo. The rolling gate, which is characteristic like a large iron pipe lying on the intake weir, is the only unusual system in Hokkaido that is used to wind up with thick chains and release floodwaters. The whole structure looks new, but the bridge connecting the pier (bridge pier) and the stone wall of the upstream surface maintain its function as it was at that time, and the civil engineering society selection ...