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Kurobe Dam hits the No. 1 Nagano the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine route side. It is the dam which is in a deep canyon with an altitude of 1500m, dammed up the Kurobe river, and was made. Kurobe Dam is called the common name Kuroyon (the fourth plant of Kurobe), and makes full use of the latest engineering-works technology of the time for seven years, the labor force which also amounts to a total of 10 million people, and that time. It completed at last in 1963 (Showa 38) after difficulty construction of distress. The total cost of construction changes also to 51,300 million yen with money of those days. Kurobe Dam is a dam of an arch type dome shape of the highest level with technology of those days, and the length of a bank is the greatest dam in Japan where 492m and the height from river bottom also become 186m. It is said that the pondage which can be accumulated to Kurobe Dam can also be about 200 million t. It is said that it is equivalent to the amount of water for about 160 cups when this is converted into TOKYO DOME. |