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Kuriyama Dam
Location of Kuriyama Dam in Japan
Country	Japan
Location	Nikkō, Tochigi Prefecture
Coordinates	36°51′08″N 139°39′10″E / 36.85222°N 139.65278°E / 36.85222; 139.65278
Status	Operational
Construction began	1981
Opening date	1985
Owner(s)	TEPCO
Dam and spillways
Type of dam	Embankment, rock-fill
Height	97.5 m (320 ft)
Length	340 m (1,115 ft)
Dam volume	2,517,000 m (3,292,112 cu yd)
Reservoir
Total capacity	6,890,000 m (5,586 acre⋅ft)
Active capacity	6,200,000 m (5,026 acre⋅ft)
Catchment area	900 m (0 acres)
Surface area	320 m (0 acres)
Normal elevation	1,090 m (3,576 ft)

The Kuriyama Dam is a rock-fill embankment dam on a tributary of the Togawa River located 6.4 km (4 mi) northwest of Nikkō in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. It was constructed between 1981 and 1985. Its reservoir serves as the upper reservoir for the 1,050 MW Imaichi Pumped Storage Power Station, while the Imaichi Dam forms the lower. The dam is 97.5 m (320 ft) tall and withholds a reservoir with a storage capacity of 6,890,000 m (5,586 acre⋅ft). Of that capacity, 6,200,000 m (5,026 acre⋅ft) is used to produce electricity at the power plant. It is owned and operated by TEPCO.

References

1. "Tokyo Electric Power Station Imaichi" (in Japanese). Suiryoku.com. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
2. Engineers, prepared by Task Committee on Pumped Storage of the Committee on Hydropower of the Energy Division of the American Society of Civil (1996). Hydroelectric pumped storage technology : international experience. New York, NY: American Soc. of Civil Engineers. pp. 2.2 1–5. ISBN 0-7844-0144-6.

• Rock-filled dams
• Dams in Tochigi Prefecture
• Dams completed in 1985