Groundbreaking participants included (L to R) Perry Harvester, Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife; Lt. Col. Cherise Lao, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District; Joel Freudenthal, former Yakima County Water Resources Strategic Manager; Yakima County Commissioner, District 2, Kyle Curtis; Wendy Christensen, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation; David Blodgett, Yakima Nation and Marc Duboiski, Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office.