Specifications include, but are not limited to: Environmental engineering oversight for the removal of Hands Mill Dam in Washington, Vermont. Hands Mill Dam, located in the Town of Washington, Orange County, Vermont, impounded a segment of the Jail Branch, a tributary to the Winooski River. Its initial build date is unknown, but there was a mill on site as early as 1866 that may have used an early timber dam for mechanical power. Shortly after the November 1927 flood, the dam was reconstructed with concrete and the mechanical power feature was lost. The drainage area for the dam is approximately 6.6 square miles, 84% forested, 8% agricultural, 4% developed, 2% shrubs and grasses, and 2% wetlands. A large volume of sediment was impounded behind the dam and the brook wound through well vegetated scrub/shrub wetland for roughly 2.2 acres upstream.
