Water water everywhere, even on the floor

It's been a while since I've posted any progress on the layout, due to a lot of other stuff going on.  Hemingway once said "the shortest answer is doing the thing", and after months of thinking about and preparing for pouring the "water" for the river, today I took the "plunge".  I used the Woodland Scenics Deep Pour water system.  According to the calculations from their website, I needed FOUR of the packages to fill the shipping channel space. I watched the instructional video many times; I painted the river bottom; I sealed the ends as best I could with tape; and forged forward today with mixing and pouring the epoxy solution.  Once you pour this, there's no going back, no do-over's.  Whatever happens, it is what it is.

From those you'll see some of the initial work plastering the banks and painting it all, pouring the "water", and where it managed to leak underneath.

Lessons learned:

1. Rest assured, it WILL find a way to leak underneath. No matter how well you think it's sealed.  Have plenty of painter's tape and duct tape ready, and be ready to rip dried epoxy off your arm later that night. What you hope for is that there's enough "water" in there that before it all drips away, it'll solidify enough in place.  "Lowered Expectations."
2. I wasn't sure - should I place the tugboat in there as I pour, or have it sitting on top afterwards?  I went for the former.  It's in there, it's not coming out.
3. We're about 9 hours into it, and they said to wait 24 hours for it to fully harden - but so far, considering cost-benefit, I might as well have gotten some gloss paint or polyurethane and just used that, it wouldn't have looked much different.  We'll see how it looks later tomorrow.
4. I thought I was done with crawling under the layout and hitting my head underneath - no, we've still found new reasons to do so.

Next up (because this is what it is), besides cleaning up/painting over epoxy on the basement floor: finishing ballasting; working on a grade crossing at the suburban scene and pouring roads around there.  Maybe I'll get these done by....Christmas?