Thanks Art. I was there. It was a good day.

As for the dump, the engineers have done what should keep any leachate to an acceptable quantity.

The only thing nobody can quantify at this time, or in future, is how fast Mother Nature will clean up the river. There are concerns about "too much clean up too fast" which could cause an inordinate amount of silt fouling the estuary and bay... but that can be addressed by regulating the flow using the gates if need be.

I suppose the bats and swallows and dragonflies and such might be miffed... there will be approximately 1B less skeeters to eat. That's just a guesstimate, of course.