Aratani-ike Dam

Aratani-ike Dam (荒谷池) is an earthfill dam located in Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 0.2 km2. The dam impounds about 2 ha of land when full and can store 30 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1916 and completed in 1917.