Other than touch-up work, stream channel restoration is done. I took this picture from the middle of the impoundment looking downstream towards the former dam. At the upper right hand corner of the photo is a bare slope. This is where the Hopewell Mills Dam sat. It extended from that bare slope all the way to the right edge of the photo.
I took this photo from the downstream end of the impoundment; it's the last meander bend before the river reaches the former dam site. The engineering plans included pools, point bars, and gravel deposits, all of which can be seen in this photo.
I took this picture from the middle of the impoundment looking upstream. The brick Reed & Barton silver mill is in the distance. Now that the channel construction is done, the crews will continue removing contaminated sediment from the floodplain and plant the floodplain with native trees and shrubs.
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