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Show S.C.S. Readies To Award Duchesne River Contracts The equipment rental contract con-tract for channel restoration and streambank protection work for Kenneth L. Wilkinson and Bert Mayhew, on the Duchesne River, is to be awarded this week by the Soil Conservation Service. The work is located oh the Duchesne River approximately 14 miles north of Duchesne The designated government representative rep-resentative to be in charge of the work will be John S. Strang, SCS office, Duchesne. The SCS will arrange for rights-of-way for its employees, i contractors, sub-ifontractors, and other agents on areas on which the work is to be performed. Rented equipment will be used in channel restoration and for earth moving, trench excavation, exca-vation, dragging and placing of trees, and cable tightening in i bank protection work, i Stream channel restoration work consists of channel excavation exca-vation to remove rilt-sand-gravel bars and trees and snags which were deposited by the ,1952 spring snow melt and runoff in the Duchesne River. |