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The passage weighs immediate costs (turbidity spike, angler complaints) against ecological processes that resume post-removal (fish passage, channel formation, plant colonization). The engineer’s framing—“short-term disturbance” for a longer-term “reknitting” of processes—matches B: an explicit trade-off between transient sediment pulses and recovery. A and D are alarmist and contradict the ecological benefits and natural dynamics described; sediment here is a process component, not necessarily contamination. C mischaracterizes anglers’ concerns as a verdict on ecology; the text reports complaints, not a dismissal of restoration goals. On Nelson–Denny title questions, choose the option that reflects both temporal phases and the author’s balanced tone. Key cues—“two weeks,” “then settled,” “argue”—signal a process trajectory rather than a simplistic good-or-bad narrative, pointing to a nuanced title that integrates immediate and eventual outcomes.