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Fukutomi Dam

The 515th tallest dam in the world

58 m · 190 ft

Fukutomi Dam is a gravity dam located in Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for flood control and water supply. The catchment area of the dam is 53.8 km2. The dam impounds about 70 ha of land when full and can store 10900 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1975 and completed in 2008.

Dam data from Wikidata (CC0) plus curated additions. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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