Amagase Dam

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The Amagase Dam (天ヶ瀬ダム) is an arch dam on the Uji River just upstream from Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. The main purpose of the dam is flood control but it supports a hydroelectric power station and creates the lower reservoir for the Kisenyama Pumped Storage Plant. The dam itself serves a 92 MW power station while the pumped-storage power station upstream has a 466 MW capacity. Construction on the dam began in 1955 and it was complete in 1964. The pumped-storage power station became operational in 1970. Both plants are owned by Kansai Electric Power Company. The dam is a 73 m (240 ft) tall, 254 m (833 ft) long variable-radius arch type with structural volume of 162,000 m (5,720,976 ft). The dam withholds a reservoir called Lake Hōō (鳳凰湖, Hōō-ko; lit. "Lake Phoenix") of 26,280,000 m (21,306 acre⋅ft) of which 20,000,000 m (16,214 acre⋅ft) is active or "useful" storage. It has a surface area of 1.9 km (1 sq mi).