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Teradagawa Dam

dam in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ113480326 ↗
Source-derived summary

Teradagawa Dam (Japanese: 寺田川ダム) is a rockfill dam located in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation and water supply. The catchment area of the dam is 2.3 km2. The dam impounds about 6 ha of land when full and can store 460 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1996 and completed in 2007.

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“Teradagawa Dam” enters the record as dam in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Teradagawa, Ishikawa and Prefecture can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Teradagawa, Ishikawa and Prefecture.
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“Teradagawa Dam” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Teradagawa, Ishikawa and Prefecture provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q113480326. Authority coordinates are 37.300, 137.051. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Teradagawa 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.