March 15. It was somewhere around the beginning of the third week of March. The causeway was finished, I think, around March 3 or March 4. My students and myself were on the causeway and taking pictures on March 5 and I think the extractions started to take place full bore on March 6. Then it took place for a couple of weeks. Then it was apparently stopped short because of all the complaints and the media interest it was generating.
On June 1st, 2006. See this statement in context.