Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Design a system that minimizes long-term maintenance needs and associated costs. 2. Reduce overall flood risk within the project area by increasing capacity for conveyance of flood flows through levee modifications, river side-channel construction within the adjacent floodplain, as well as roadway and drainage improvements. 3. Set the new flood protection system back from the river, where feasible, to improve riverine and riparian processes, functions, and habitat. 4. Reconnect a minimum of approximately five acres of floodplain to provide flood conveyance and encourage natural river processes, as part of the Cedar River 2017 Large Wood Modifications Mitigation Plan.