The backfilling of the wing walls was also completed last week allowing us to ride over the bridge of the water gate on our motorbikes. Our contractor's remaining crew is currently working on the rip rap lining while waiting until Sunday to remove the rest of the formwork. Chanda, our contractor and his team are a month and a half ahead of schedule, and we are very excited to see the finished product. We went out on Tuesday to test out the control bars of the gateway, and were very happy to see some red added to the water gate. We are now concentrating our efforts on mobilizing the villages to complete the embankment grassing - just another 30% left! We are organizing another big event on Thursday, June 12th to accomplish the grassing in one day. We believe it will be another success. We still have substantial work to do on the excavation of the downstream canals, and we'll begin our celebrations when that and our Water User Groups are up and running!