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Sukenobu Dam

dam in Toyama Prefecture, Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ11588482 ↗
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Sukenobe Dam is a gravity dam located in Toyama prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for power production. The catchment area of the dam is 6.8 km2. The dam impounds about 60 ha of land when full and can store 8790 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1928 and completed in 1931.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928, 1931—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1931. The account is most persuasive where Sukenobu, Toyama and Prefecture can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as dam in Toyama Prefecture, Japan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11588482. Authority coordinates are 36.489, 137.399. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1928 and 1931.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sukenobu Dam” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.