Bob Stokes is director of the Galveston Bay Foundation in Texas.

鲍勃·斯托克斯是德克萨斯州加尔维斯顿湾基金会的负责人。

With sand dredged from Galveston Bay, a memorial marks the disaster.

用从加尔维斯顿湾挖出的沙子建造了一座纪念碑来纪念这场灾难。

At the centre of it all is  the most challenging part of the project — a storm surge barrier  system made up of several huge gates, which will span the near-two-mile  gap at the entrance to Galveston Bay.

这一切的中心是该项目最具挑战性的部分——由几个巨大的闸门组成的风暴潮屏障系统，它将跨越加尔维斯顿湾入口处近两英里的缺口。