Fuchu Dam

Fuchu Dam
Fuchu Dam
Location	Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Construction began	1962
Opening date	1966
Construction cost	2,400,000,000 JPY
Operator(s)	Kagawa Prefecture
Dam and spillways
Type of dam	Concrete gravity dam
Impounds	Aya River
Height	27.5 m
Length	131 m
Dam volume	39,000 m³
Reservoir
Creates	Lake Fuchu
Total capacity	8,000,000 m³
Catchment area	122,7 km²
Surface area	121 ha

Fuchu Dam (Japanese: 府中ダム) is a dam in Fuchu Town, Sakaide, Kagawa, Japan, completed in 1966. It dams the Aya River in the Aya River drainage system.^[1]

Lake Fuchu

Fuchu Dam's reservoir, Lake Fuchu, along with Taki no Miya, was some of the picturesque scenery chosen as one of the "Timeless 100 Famous Views." This reservoir was called "Lake Fuchu" starting in the 1990s, and maps from before showed the lake as Fuchu Reservoir.

Lake Fuchu has canoe and rowboat competitions which are popular among high schools and employees of companies in the prefecture. It is being maintained as the East Shikoku Athletic Meet's venue for canoe competitions, a site of about 3 hectares with the Sakaide Canoe Training Center (boat-house and training room) and judge's chair and embark-disembark wharf for competitions. The course can be set at up to 9 lanes of 1000 meters, so it was designated by the JOC (Japan Olympic Committee) as a canoe race training facility, and players compete in Japanese championships and international athletes are sent to compete in international championship trials and such meetings there on a large scale. In August 2008, Finland's team used the same lake to practice before the Beijing Olympics.