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AGRICULTURE/MARKETING--MARSHLAND PROTECTION TENDERS AWARDED
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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.
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Contact: Hank Kolstee 902-893-6569
trp Dec. 19, 1995