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Gakkogawa Dam

The 690th tallest dam in the world

48 m · 157 ft

Gakkogawa Dam is a gravity concrete & fill dam (compound) dam located in Yamagata Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for flood control. The catchment area of the dam is 27.6 km2. The dam impounds about 15 ha of land when full and can store 1780 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1970 and completed in 1978.

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