The Hope Mills Dam in North Carolina is the recent recipient of the Envision ® Bronze award for sustainable infrastructure. This is the first dam project to earn an Envision award, and the second project in the state to earn recognition from ISI for sustainability., The new Hope Mills Dam has been designed to avoid and correct the shortcomings of the most recent failed dam. The project was delivered at price that was less than the previous dam and within the limits of the financial settlement of the earlier dam failure., Here, Hope Mills residents Rex and Deborah Johnson watch Saturday night's fireworks display from their pier on July 4, 2009. The fireworks were launched from the roadway over the new Hope Mills dam., Work on the new dam at Hope Mills Lake is finished. Now, the town awaits the dam to undergo safety testing by the state and the US Army Corps of Engineers before water can be put back in the iconic lake., The Hope Mills Dam breached in June 2010, approximately 18 months after its completion. The new dam is a five-cycle reinforced concrete labyrinth dam on engineered fill. Additional features include lake bed clearing, a gate, fencing, dam monitoring instrumentation, railing, eel ladder, and engineered earthen embankments with a chimney drain system., .