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My name is Alice Goldbach . I'm a

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contracting officers , representative

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of the US Army Corps of Engineers ,

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Buffalo District . We're here at the

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Michigan Pier which is right next to

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slip . Three . It's the site of an

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ecological restoration project .

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So this year's dredging cycle , the

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Buffalo River is almost complete .

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Roughly 80,000 cubic yards of sediment

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from the Buffalo River has been

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excavated from the channel sediments

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loaded onto scows which are these large

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vessels used to transport the material .

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The material is then pumped into the

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slip behind me which is protected by a

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newly installed breakwater designed

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with a weir to keep the material in the

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slip while allowing fish and other

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wildlife to enter and exit . It's going

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to take three dredging cycles to fill

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the slip with enough sediment to reach

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target depths which are necessary to

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sustain the aquatic habitat . We

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anticipate that about 250 to 300,000

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cubic yards of material will be

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required . And we're now on the first

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dredge cycle of the overall project

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which is set to be complete by 2030