Kurobe Dam
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Coordinates | 36 ° 33 ′ 30 ″ N , 137 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E | ||||||
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Construction time: | 1956-1963 | ||||||
Height above foundation level : | 186 m | ||||||
Building volume: | 1.582 million m³ | ||||||
Crown length: | 492 m | ||||||
Power plant output: | 335 MW | ||||||
Data on the reservoir | |||||||
Altitude (at congestion destination ) | approx. 1470 m | ||||||
Water surface | 3.49 km² | ||||||
Storage space | 200 million m³ | ||||||
Catchment area | 188.5 km² |
The Kurobe Dam ( Jap. 黒部ダム , Kurobe-damu ) or Kuroyon Dam ( 黒四ダム Kuroyon-damu , short for Kurobe 4) is a dam near the same-named town Kurobe on as the eponymous river Kurobe (Kurobe-gawa) in the Toyama Prefecture on the island of Honshu in Japan .
The arch dam , built from 1956 to 1963, is 186 meters high and is the highest dam in Japan. A hydroelectric power station generates electricity for the Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO). The dam is also integrated into the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route through the Kanden Tunnel Trolleybus .
Nearly 200 construction workers were killed in the construction, which cost 51.3 billion yen . A film Kurobe no Taiyō ( 黒 部 の 太陽 , dt. Kurobe's sun ), with Yūjirō Ishihara in the lead role (brother of the governor of Tokyo Shintarō Ishihara ), tells the story of the project.
The narrow-gauge Kurobe Gorge Railway and the Kurobe Sen'yō network as well as the Kanden Tunnel O-Bus, which are still in operation today, were built as transport connections for the construction and operation of the dam and the power plants .
Underground terminus of the Kanden Tunnel trolleybus
See also
- List of the largest dams on earth
- List of the largest reservoirs on earth
- List of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world
- List of dams in the world
Web links
- Kurobe dam - official website (Japanese)
- Photo gallery ( Memento from July 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive )