Hojozugata Lagoon

Japanese: 放生津潟 - ほうじょうづがた

A lagoon located in the Imizu Plain in the northwest of Toyama Prefecture. It belongs to Imizu City. Formerly known as Koshi-no-umi, it was a fairly large lake, but it has shrunk due to the accumulation of sediment from the flowing rivers and land reclamation. In 1961, construction work began on the excavated Toyama New Port, which uses the lagoon, and in 1964 the Toyama Takaoka area, including this area, was designated a new industrial city. Toyama New Port opened in 1968. The port is 14m deep and can accommodate ships of up to 80,000 tons. The excavated sediment has been used to create an industrial site of about ^5km2 , and the former lagoon landscape has been almost completely lost. (→ Toyama Takaoka Industrial Area )

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Japanese:

富山県北西部，射水平野にある潟湖。射水市に属する。古くは越湖 (こしのうみ) と呼ばれ，かなり広い湖であったが，流入河川による土砂の堆積と干拓により縮小した。 1961年この潟を利用して掘込式の富山新港の建設工事が始まり，1964年この地区を含む富山高岡地区が新産業都市に指定された。 1968年富山新港開港。港内は水深 14mで8万t級の船舶の接岸が可能。掘り上げた土砂で約 5km²の工業用地が造成され，かつての潟湖の景観はほとんど失われた。 (→富山高岡工業地域 )

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