Road led sign the void now holding still

the void now holding still water at its base

rust streaking the faded render as vegetation pushes through the structure from below

all buildings were demolished in 2018

lifting water to the North Shore suburbs via a network of reservoirs at Chatswood

running approximately 100 m of chain to a pair of anchors positioned port and starboard

Road led sign the void now holding stillDry susuki grass pushing through cracked asphalt on the main road through the Ogurawa settlement, timber and corrugated iron buildings lining the right, power lines crossing overhead, dense mountain forest pressing in on three sides. The Ogurawa settlement sits in the narrow upper Nakatsugawa valley, where Nitchitsu Co. Ltd. built an entire community around Chichibu Mine. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.