There are two types of opening, rectangular and orifice openings, used frequently in detention dam recently. The hydraulic characteristics of these two openings are different so that those effects on flood detention are not the same. This study used Puls Method simulating a watershed to get series of outflow hydrographs on different openings, opening sizes and location areas. And, the principal results were got as followings. The effect of elongating time lag of arriving time of peak flow of detention dam could not easily used in flood-mitigation design but curtail the flood discharge. Drawing the relationship of water depth and location area for different openings, associated with restricted outflow discharge, would get the smallest designed storage volume of detention dam. As the same flood volume as well as the ratio of inflow and outflow, the storage volume of orifice opening would be smaller than that of rectangular one.