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Odo Dam

The 158th tallest dam in the world

96 m · 315 ft

Odo Dam is a gravity dam located in Kochi Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for flood control, water supply and power production. The catchment area of the dam is 688.9 km2. The dam impounds about 201 hectares of land when full and can store 66 million cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1966 and completed in 1986.

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

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