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Tenma Dam

The 648th tallest dam in the world

50.5 m · 166 ft

Tenma Dam is a gravity dam located in Aomori Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for flood control and irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 63.5 km2. The dam impounds about 116 ha of land when full and can store 19584 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1960 and completed in 1970.

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

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