Sasogawa Dam

Sasogawa Dam (笹生川ダム, Sasogawa damu) is a multi-purpose dam located in the city of Ōno in Fukui Prefecture.

[1] The dam and its reservoir are located within Okuetsu Kōgen Prefectural Natural Park.

Sasogawa Dam was built as part of the Managawa River Comprehensive Development Project, for the development of the Kuzuryū River basin in Fukui prefecture from 1950, for flood control, water for agriculture and also, to supply the cities of Fukui and Ōno with water and hydroelectric power generation.

For this reason, Fukui Prefecture, which manages the dam, started a flood discharge improvement plan in 1972, and built a flood discharge tunnel on the right bank of the dam to deal with the Okuetsu heavy rain class flood.

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