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Iwayagawauchi Dam

The 489th tallest dam in the world

59.5 m · 195 ft

Iwayagawauchi Dam is a concrete gravity dam used for flood control in Japan's Saga Prefecture. The catchment area of the dam is 10.7 km2. It impounds about 14 ha of land when full, and can store 2500 thousand cubic meters of water. Dam construction lasted form 1967 until 1973. In November 2024, a Godzilla mural was pressure washed on the Dam's side.

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

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