Each element of the project must undergo extensive scrutiny by regulatory agencies to ensure the project does not cause negative impacts to the river, environment, or surrounding communities. Over the last 15+ years we have been engaged with multiple agencies meeting to hear their concerns, altering the design, and verifying that indeed the overall project will provide a positive benefit for the river and the environment. There have been extensive conversations with regulatory agencies on topics like hydraulic modeling, fish passage, impacts to threatened and endangered mussels. Some of these conversations on their own took multiple years and led to direct changes to the proposed design to reduce impacts and achieve the most amount of benefit. These conversations and processes take time. Lots of time.