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Ubaranai Dam

The 905th tallest dam in the world

40.5 m · 133 ft

Ubaranai Dam is a rockfill dam located in Hokkaido Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 14 km2. The dam impounds about 34 ha of land when full and can store 4300 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1978 and completed in 2000.

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