Shirakawa Dam

Italy

Shirakawa Dam is a rockfill dam located in Yamagata Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for flood control, irrigation, water supply and power production. The catchment area of the dam is 205 km2. The dam impounds about 270 ha of land when full and can store 50000 thousand cubic meters of water. The

construction of the dam was started on 1968 and completed in 1981.

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