As of this morning, Central Vermont Pubic Service's restoration effort is nearly complete from the snow and wind that knocked out power to 19,000 customers Wednesday. There were about 42 customers in Starksboro still without power from the storm, and a few scattered outages across the state, caused by high winds last night. CVPS said it has a mass of line crews, tree crews and additional field support staff in Starksboro working as quickly as they safely can to get those customers back on as soon as possible today.
Line workers restored service to thousands of customers over the last three days, rebuilding major sections of the electrical system in the wake of a storm with winds that topped 90 mph.
CVPS workers – assisted by crews from Green Mountain Power, Burlington Electric and dozens of outside tree and line contractors, including 14 contract crews from Connecticut – worked to remove hundreds of trees and limbs from lines in Addison, Bennington and Rutland counties.
“The towns of East Middlebury, Lincoln, Ripton and Starksboro sustained heavy damage, and crews are literally having to remove dozens of trees and limbs from single sections of line,” said CVPS spokeswoman Christine Rivers. “Five additional line crews from National Grid in New York are also assisting restoration efforts in the Middlebury area, along with all the Connecticut crews and numerous CV crews.”
For current up-to-date outage numbers by town, visit www.cvps.com, and click on the outage information (http://www.cvps.com/CustomerService/outages/default.aspx) box on the homepage. Numbers are updated every 15 minutes.
Source: CVPS. 12.11.2009
CVPS restores power to nearly all customers
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