{"id":113751,"date":"2018-09-13T18:20:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T09:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=113751&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2018-09-13T18:20:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T09:20:14","slug":"water-levels-decrease-in-fukuoka-dams","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/water-levels-decrease-in-fukuoka-dams\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Levels Decrease in Fukuoka Dams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The volume of water available at the Hyugami (Yame City), Minamihata (Nakagawa-machi), Aburagi (Soeda-machi), and Rikimaru (Miyawaka City) Dams has decreased following the end of rainy season. Statistics published on September 11 show that water storage levels across Fukuoka Prefecture main dams (excluding Oyama) is now at 55.1 percent. Oyama Dam is located in Oita Prefecture, but supplies water to the Chikugo area in Fukuoka. This is approximately 20% lower than average for this time of year. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.fukuoka.lg.jp\/contents\/damuchosui.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fukuoka Prefecture<\/a>, 9\/11\/2018<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/hyugami-dam-fr-wiki.jpg?resize=1400%2C1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-113752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/hyugami-dam-fr-wiki.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/hyugami-dam-fr-wiki.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/hyugami-dam-fr-wiki.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/hyugami-dam-fr-wiki.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo of Hyugami Dam for image purpose only. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:%E3%83%80%E3%83%A0%E6%B9%96%E3%82%88%E3%82%8A%E3%80%8C%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E5%B2%A9%E3%80%8D%E3%82%92%E8%87%A8%E3%82%80_-_panoramio.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UltraH<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The volume of water available at the Hyugami (Yame City), Minamihata (Nakagawa-machi), Aburagi (Soeda-machi), and Rikimaru (Miyawaka City) Dams has decreased following the end of rainy season. Statistics published on September 11 show that water storage levels across Fukuoka Prefecture main dams (excluding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":113752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-113751","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-environment","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/113751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}