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Momosuke Fukuzawa

Reading: Momosuke Fukuzawa (福ざわ桃スケ) Attached Name: Momosuke Fukuzawa Maiden Name: Momosuke Iwasaki Momosuke Fukuzawa was a businessman active from the late Meiji period to the early Showa period. He was mainly active in the Japanese electric power industry and was nicknamed the "King of Electric Power in Japan. Momosuke Fukuzawa, maiden name Momosuke Iwasaki, was born in Arako Village, Yokomi-gun, Musashi Province,...
"ta" column or row of the kana syllabary

drinking at a dam

Also known as dam sake, dam sake is an alcoholic beverage that is submerged and aged in the audit corridor or rim tunnel of a dam or in a reservoir. The temperature is always kept constant in summer and winter in the audit corridors and rim tunnels, making them suitable for maturing. Also...
"ha" column or row of the kana syllabary

flash board

Read : flashboardAlternative name : 決寫时板,決瀉板,欠寫板,欠瀉板,欠瀉板,欠瀉板 (sometimes written in hiragana because "sha" is difficult to read), Ryukai gateEnglish : flashboardFlashboard is driftwood that has flowed into a reservoir...
"ta" column or row of the kana syllabary

dammeister

The Dam Meister is a non-profit organization established by the Japan General Public Corporation to inform the general public about the actual status of dams, their roles and functions, and their attractiveness...
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Games featuring dams

Read: Damgatoujousuru Game a.k.a. -Games in which dams appear are games in which dams appear, including fictional ones. The following is a list of games that this site is aware of. Dan←Dam (Nintendo DS) A monstrosity that attacks a desert town called Soixant...
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weir (usu. for irrigation)

Headworks are a series of structures, such as water intakes and weirs, that are used to intake agricultural water from rivers and streams. A headworks is a structure with a high ...
"ka" column or row of the kana syllabary

tailings dam

Tailings dam is a tailings dam that is used to remove tailings (slag) generated during ore dressing and smelting in mines....
"ta" column or row of the kana syllabary

Animated works featuring dams

Read: damgatoujousuru anime sakuhin alias: -Anime works in which dams appear are anime works in which dams appear, including fictional ones. The following is a list of anime works that this website is aware of. Pattenrai! 〜Water Stories from the Southern Islands - Japan...
"a" column or row of the kana syllabary

saddle dam

The saddle dam is a dam lake created by the construction of the main body of a dam....
"a" column or row of the kana syllabary

Extreme Flood Disaster Prevention Operation

Read: Operation for disaster prevention at times of abnormal floods, also known as emergency discharge or special operations
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hyetograph

The hyetograph is a graph showing the amount of rainfall over time. The horizontal axis shows time, and the vertical axis shows rainfall on the vertical axis. It shows the amount of rainfall in hours...
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hydrograph

Read : hydrographAlso known as -English : hydrographA hydrograph is a graph that shows changes in the amount of water flowing into a dam or river and the water level over time. The graph shows time on the horizontal axis and flow rate and water level on the vertical axis. The graph is created by...
"sa" column or row of the kana syllabary

sacrificer

Stay shikou is one of the construction methods mainly used on the slopes of rockfill dams and other dams to prevent erosion and weathering by wind and rain and water from dam lakes. ...
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stonemason

Reading: Hari-Ishikou alias: -Hari-Ishikou is one of the construction methods mainly used for rockfill dams and other slopes, in which larger stones (500-1000 mm in diameter) are laid down and then smaller stones are filled in between them. It is a very fine construction with no unevenness...
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unequal arch dam

Read: Hutoatsu Arch Dam Alias: - An unequal thickness arch dam is an arch-type concrete dam with thickened concrete sections on both banks of the embankment. When an arch dam is built in a wide V-shaped valley, the load on both banks of the arch may be too much...
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sub-dam

A sub-dam is a weir generally installed downstream of a dam to buffer water falling from a flood discharge and prevent scouring. It is a type of damming. In most cases, the height of the embankment does not exceed 15 m, but if the original dam is large, the sub-dam may also be large...
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combined dam

Composite dam → Combined dam
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combine dam

A combined dam is a dam that consists of both a concrete dam and a fill dam. The concrete dam is usually installed on the hard bank and the fill dam on the loose bank....
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SWL

SWL (Surcharge Water Level) → Surcharge water level
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NWL

NWL (Normal Water Level) → Always full water level
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