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List Of Dams And Reservoirs In Japan
As a nation of islands and narrow, steep valleys, dams play a vital role in Japanese society as they are constructed primarily to control floods, supply water and generate hydroelectric power. The tallest dam in Japan is the high Kurobe Dam. The largest dam by structural volume in the country is the Tokuyama Dam ''(pictured)'' with of rock-fill. Tokuyama also creates Japan's largest reservoir with a water volume of . The dams are arranged by prefecture in the list below. Chubu region * Aichi * Fukui * Gifu * Ishikawa * Nagano * Niigata * Shizuoka * Toyama * Yamanashi Chugoku region * Hiroshima * Okayama * Shimane * Tottori * Yamaguchi Kansai region * Hyogo * Kyoto * Mie * Nara * Osaka * Shiga * Wakayama Kanto region * Chiba * Gunma * Ibaraki * Kanagawa * Saitama * Tochigi * Tokyo Kyushu region * Fukuoka * Kagoshima * Kumamoto * Miyazaki * Nagasaki * Okinawa * Oita * Saga Hokkaido region * Hokkaido Shikoku region * Ehime * Kagawa * Kochi * Tokushima Tohoku re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokuyama Dam
The is an embankment dam near Ibigawa, Ibi District, Gifu Prefecture in Japan. The dam was completed in 2008 and will support a 153 MW hydroelectric power station that is expected to be fully operational in 2015. Currently, Unit 1 at 23 MW was commissioned in May 2014. The dam was originally intended to withhold the upper reservoir of a 400 MW pumped-storage power station until a design change in 2004. The dam is also intended for flood control and water supply. It is the largest dam by structural volume in Japan and withholds the country's largest reservoir by volume as well. History In December 1957, Electric Power Development Company (J-Power) selected the Ibi River for study at the 23rd Electric Power Development Coordinating Meeting. By May 1976, the Ministry of Construction released their bulletin "Policy on Tokuyama Dam Construction Project". In December 1982, the project was incorporated into the Electric Power Development Basic Plan. It was approved by the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
