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Nagara Dam

The 625th tallest dam in the world

52 m · 171 ft

Nagara Dam is an earthfill dam located in Chiba Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for water supply. The catchment area of the dam is 3.4 km2. The dam impounds about 81 ha of land when full and can store 10000 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1966 and completed in 1993.

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

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