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Norokawa Dam

The 788th tallest dam in the world

44.8 m · 147 ft

Norokawa Dam is a concrete gravity dam located in Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for flood control. The catchment area of the dam is 13 km2, equal to about 8 mi2. The dam impounds about 14 ha of land when full and can store 1,700,000 m3 (or about 450 million US gallons) of water. The construction of the dam was started in 1969 and completed in 1975.

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

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