Shiroyama Dam

The Shiroyama Dam is a multi-reason dam on the standard Sagami River in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture on the island of Honshu, Japan. The capability of the Sagami River valley for hydroelectric power improvement started to be created during the 1930s, with the development of industry and electrical utilization in the Yokohama-Kanagawa modern belt. Work on the Sagami Dam, the primary dam on the standard of the Sagami River started in 1938; be that as it may, absence of financing and the coming of World War II postponed finish until after the finish of the war. Work on the Shiroyama Dam, in the previous town of Tsukui, Tsukui District initiated in 1960 and was finished in 1965 by the Kumagai Gumi development organization.

The Shiroyama Dam is an empty center solid gravity dam. It was intended to give flood control, and modern and drinking water to the urban communities of Yokohama, Kawasaki, Yokosuka and the Shonan territory. It additionally fills in as a Pumped-stockpiling hydroelectricity office related to the Honzawa Dam further upstream. The related Shiroyama Hydroelectric Power Plant has an appraised limit of 250,000 kW of intensity, and the Tsukui Hydroelectric Power Plant has an extra limit of 25,000 kW. The reversible turbine generators at the Shiroyama Power Plant were intended to work as either electrical power generators, or as siphons, to switch the stream of water again into the repository of the Honzawa Dam in the midst of low interest. Free to the Shiroyama Dam and to Lake Tsukui are by Japan National Route 413, which really keeps running over the highest point of the dam itself.