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AGRICULTURE/MARKETING--MARSHLAND PROTECTION TENDERS AWARDED ------------------------------------------------------------ Agriculture and Marketing Minister Wayne Gaudet has announced the awarding of two tenders for the supply and placement of quarried rock for marshland protection in River Hebert and Colchester County areas of the province. Vaughn Melanson Trucking and Excavating of Amherst, with a bid of $64,505 was the lowest of four bids received for the supply and placement of 11,000 tonnes of quarried rock in the River Hebert area of Cumberland County. In the Colchester County area Ian Sinclair Contracting Services Limited of Truro was the lowest of five bids received for the supply and placement of 13,000 tonnes of quarried rock. Their bid was for $124,968. The rock is used to protect dykes from wave action damage due to storms or high tides, and for agricultural streambank protection. The Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing currently maintains 240 kilometres of dyke and 260 aboiteau structures which protect over 17,000 hectares of agricultural land as well as protecting communities, such as Truro, from flooding. -30- Contact: Hank Kolstee 902-893-6569 trp Dec. 19, 1995