Gusty Winds Cause Outages in St. Helens, Rainier
March 8, 2010
A storm cell moved through Columbia County on Monday afternoon, causing outages affecting 3,300 Columbia River PUD electric customers.
The largest outage, which affected 2,886 customers in St. Helens, occurred at 3:02 p.m. when a fir tree limb fell across the power lines on Tualatin Street near 8th Street. PUD crews removed the limb and restored power to all customers by 3:25 p.m.
An outage on Nicolai Road in Rainier affected 326 customers between 1:40p.m and 3:48 p.m. It was also caused by a tree limb in the power lines.
Smaller outages occured on Forest Park Drive in Rainier and on Brinn Road in St. Helens.
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For more information, contact Libby Calnon, PUD Communication Specialist, at lca@crpud.org or (503) 366-3264.
Columbia River People's Utility District provides electric service to 18,560 customers in Columbia and Multnomah Counties in Oregon.
The PUD employs 50 people and had FY2009 gross revenues of $26.9 million.
