Deep underground
Deep underground (大深度地下, dai-shindo chika) is a Japanese concept for the public use of deep underground, enabled by a 2001 law. It was first thought of in the late 1980s as Japan faced ever-increasing land values in the economic bubble, to allow the use of heretofore-unused deep underground for necessary water and utility ducts and other city tunnels.
However, due to technical difficulties in ventilation, emergency procedures and other safety-related issues and the relatively high cost, no projects using deep underground have been completed as of 2010.
Definition
- Depth greater than 40 meters or
- Depth 10 meters greater than the layer on which deep foundation rests
In the case of public use, no compensation to the land owner is required.
Projects using the law
- Underground water mains in Kobe (Chūō-ku, Kobe)
- Project approved on June 19, 2007 (first ever in Japan).
- Tokyo Gaikan Expressway (Tōmei Junction - Ōizumi Junction/Interchange)
- Project status elevated to construction stage on April 27, 2009.
Projects anticipated to use the law
- Capacity expansion of Chūō Main Line (extension of Keiyō Line from Tokyo Station to Mitaka Station)
- Extension of Tsukuba Express from Akihabara Station to Tokyo Station
- Chūō Shinkansen (a total of 100 km of deep underground track in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka areas)
- Hanshin Expressway Route 2 Yodogawa-Sagan Line third phase (extension from Toyosaki, Kita-ku, Osaka to Hiejima, Kadoma)
External links
- Law on Special Measures for the Public Use of Deep Underground (大深度地下の公共的使用に関する特別措置法 dai-shindo chika no kōkyō-teki shiyō ni kansuru tokubetsu sochihō or 大深度地下使用法 dai-shindo chika shiyōhō)
- Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism page on the utilization of deep underground
- Group plans to bury Tokyo's elevated 'shuto'
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