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Showa-ike

Showa-ike Showa-ike - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Showa-ike is an earthfill dam located in Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 2.1 km2. The dam impounds about 5 ha of land when full and can store 393 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was completed in 1930. Read more on Wikipedia

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