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Gandozawa Dam

The 366th tallest dam in the world

68 m · 223 ft

Gandozawa Dam is a gravity dam located in Miyagi Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The dam impounds about 69 ha of land when full and can store 13480 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1993 and completed in 2009.

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

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