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Hayaseno Dam

The 547th tallest dam in the world

56 m · 184 ft

Hayaseno Dam is a rockfill dam located in Aomori Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 22.8 km2. The dam impounds about 75 ha of land when full and can store 13,500,000 cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1968 and completed in 1985.

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

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