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A Terence Bay company will manage the shoreline restoration project in Annapolis Royal.
Town council awarded the $88,462.50 contract to CB Wetlands and Environmental Specialists (CBWES) Inc. at its April 16 meeting. Officials from the town and Climate Change Canada recommended CBWES Inc. after scoring the three bids received for the project.
“I really felt like that one understood the project intimately,” Deputy Mayor Sybil Skinner-Robertson said. “I think it is important that they are here in Nova Scotia also.”
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The firm has more than 20 years of experience restoring salt marshes in Atlantic Canada.
“As the project manager, we will ensure that project risks are identified, managed and mitigated,” the company said in its bid. “Based on our project team’s collective experience with similar projects, we anticipate that the risks associated with this project and the implications for the Town of Annapolis Royal are low.”
Coun. Lynn Myers said CBWES’s experience communicating with the public will be an asset.
“People are going to be wondering what’s going on,” she said.
Salt marshes will be added from King’s Theatre to the Oqwa’titek Amphitheatre. They are similar to what already exists by the amphitheatre and Fort Anne National Historic Site. The project will restore and enhance the shoreline to improve biodiversity, flood protection and ecological health.
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The work is expected to begin this year and be complete by the end of 2026. The project will require part of the boardwalk to be closed at times, with most of that work anticipated to take place in 2026.
The town received two other bids on the project, one for $186,000 from a Nova Scotia-based company and the other from an Ontario-based firm with a $303,000 proposal.
The town of about 550 people is receiving $880,100 in federal funding from the Green Municipal Fund’s local leadership for climate adaptation initiative towards the $1.2-milllion project. The province has also committed $20,000.
The town was unsuccessful in one grant application, is awaiting word from another and will be applying for assistance through the Sustainable Communities Challenge Fund. Town officials are hoping to secure all the required funding from external sources.
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