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Shiobara Dam

The 476th tallest dam in the world

60 m · 197 ft

Shiobara Dam is a gravity dam located in Tochigi prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for flood control and irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 119.5 km2. The dam impounds about 41 ha of land when full and can store 8760 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1969 and completed in 1978.

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

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