We're pretty confident that's going to get finished today. The sheet pile will close the canal to the lake.
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In hindsight again, you would like to see a higher factor of safety today. But, you really can go back to the same two things the actual failure mechanism was not anticipated and then the sheer strength at the toe of the levee was weaker.
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