Sameura Dam

Sameura Dam

Sameura Dam (早明浦ダム, Sameura-damu) is a dam on the Yoshino River in the island of Shikoku, Japan, completed in 1978.^[1] It is the largest dam on Shikoku. Sameura Dam created a reservoir behind the dam, named Lake Sameura (さめうら湖, Sameura-ko).

The dam is used for hydropower, flood control, tap water, and irrigation. The hydropower plant can generate 42,000 kW.

1994 October Grumman A-6 Intruder training aircraft crash

• In October 14, 1994, a US Navy training plane Grumman A-6 Intruder, crashed into here, during low-level flight training in this place, miraculously, two people lives. ^{[citation needed]}

Water Supply crisis

• Sameura Dam is water supply to Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture and Tokushima Prefecture, and past of were out water crisis, following to large water intake stroke period.
  • During June and October 1994.
  • June 15 to September 6, 2005.
  • July 25 to October 28, 2008. ^{[citation needed]}

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