The proposed Corps 1135 Ecosystem Restoration Gap to Gap project is to setback, upgrade and certify the former DID 1 levee as a County levee built to federal standards, fill in floodplain gravel pits and open up larger areas of formerly abandoned and disconnected floodplain. The project directly returns river accessibility to 640 acres of high grade floodplain on left bank and 300 acres on the right bank below the WWTP from levee removal as well as initiate other restoration actions including a 1300 foot channel. The FbD grant proposal is to implement 5 of the 13 Corps selected Section 1135 Ecosystem Restoration measures that exceeded the available federal funds of $13.3 million. 1. Removing approximately 140,000 cubic yards of coarse armored bar sediments developed by the high velocities along the levee in two locations that cause meander lock, increased attack on the opposite bank levee and habitat simplification (1135 measures 3.0 and 5.0 ), 2. Setting back a 700-foot portion of the right bank Yakima Federal Project levee, removing an abutment and mid-river pier structure from a failed bridge that produce channel simplification and fixed  redirection (1135 measure 3.0 ), Under measure 3.0 the levee setback will move 3 acres into the active channel and allowing an additional 3 acres of backwater floodplain immediately upstream of SR12 bridge to be activated 3. Excavating a 1,300-foot pilot channel to reconnect Yakima River flows to lower Blue Sl