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US$ 7.5M contracts awarded for Hope/Dochfour canal
– includes road bridge, head regulator, outfall sluice construction
Government has granted its ‘No objection’ to four major contracts for the $3B Hope/Dochfour Northern Relief Channel.
The contracts, to the tune of $1.49B, will include the building of a 300-foot long bridge along the Hope Public Road.
The awards were announced yesterday by Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon, during his weekly press briefing.
Almost $350M will be spent on the construction of the bridge to span the channel at the public road.
Another $420M was awarded to build a head regulator at the East Demerara Water Conservancy. This structure will control the flow of water from the conservancy to the canal and out to the Atlantic.
The relief channel has been hailed by Government as crucial to efforts to prevent flooding especially in the East Demerara area. The administration has been arguing that the number of sluices, including those at Land of Canaan, East Bank of Demerara, are insufficient to take off the waters of the EDWC whenever there are flood conditions. The 2005 floods were blamed on waters being released from the conservancy through the existing canals at the extremes of the conservancy
For the building of a high level sluice outfall at the Atlantic Ocean to drain the channel, a contract for $605.4M was also awarded.
Another contract for $120.4M was approved for the supervising of the works, Dr Luncheon said.
In the health sector, contracts were also awarded for the purchase of four double-cab pickups.
The Cane Grove Public Road, at Mahaica, is also slated for repairs and a contract for $57.4M has also been awarded.
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