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Description: Pennecon's Heavy Civil Division completed phase 1 of
the Wuskwatim Generating Station project in Manitoba in March 2009.
The project was developed by Wuskwatim Power Limited Partnership, a legal entity involving Manitoba Hydro and the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation.
Phase 1 of the Wuskwatim project, valued at approximately $25 million, involved excavation and aggregate manufacturing. Pennecon's work consisted of drilling, blasting and excavating of approximately
1 million tonnes of rock, together with production and stockpiling of approximately 325,000 tonnes of coarse and fine aggregate.
Pennecon Heavy Civil's contract also involved supply and installation of rock bolts and rockfall netting, construction and maintenance of roads, construction and removal of cofferdams, as well as dewatering and pumping operations.
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