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Hisashi Dam

The 913th tallest dam in the world

40 m · 131 ft

Hisashi Dam is a dam in the Ōita Prefecture, Japan, completed in 1979. It is an embankment dam with the water used for irrigation and industry. The dam is 40 metres high and retains 4,800,000 m3 of water over a 263-metre crest length. The volume of the dam is 431,000 m3 and the surface area of Lake Hisashi is 370,000 m2.

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

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