June 14, 2010

SCE Conducts Routine Power Outage on June 17th Affecting 140 Customers

Some 137 homes and 3 businesses in Duarte will be without electrical power for approximately 7 hours between midnight and 7:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 17th due to a planned power outage for maintenance by Southern California Edison.

SCE notified city officials and mailed notices to every affected household and business of the intended shutdown. Edison describes boundaries for the planned outage as the north side of Huntington Drive, 430 feet east of Crestview Court only.

According to SCE, the outage will allow SCE crews to replace old cables and pull new ones through to existing poles, in addition to completing other repairs in for the new 16 KV Ambrus circuit. Edison plans to complete the circuit installation by Summer 2010, which will provide paralleling points at three locations on the Honeywell Circuit. This new circuit will then off-load approximately 180 amps from the Honeywell and provide needed load relief as well to the Payne and Bateman circuits that serve other areas of Duarte.

To prepare for the planned outage, SCE advises customers to shut off or disconnect all sensitive electronic equipment, such as computers and fax machines, before the outage begins. Notify security and/or phone companies that provide businesses with service as the outage will affect alarm systems and may affect private phone systems. Customers should make sure that they could override or manually operate their security gates or garage doors. Plan to minimize the opening of refrigerator and freezer doors during the outage to maintain temperature. If customers plan to operate an emergency generator, notify SCE before the outage so SCE can protect its employees from possible electrical back feed. To notify SCE of a generator, call 1-(800) 990-7788.

For more information and current status on a planned outage, visit www.sce.com/outage or call 1-(800) 611-1911 and reference Planned Outage #404057.

Outage Status: Scheduled
Outage Alert Num: 404057
Starting at: June 17, 2010 12:01 a.m.
Ending at: June 17, 2010 7:00 a.m.
# of Residential customers affected: 137
# of Commercial customers affected: 3
Outage Boundary: HUNTINGTON DRIVE NORTH/SIDE 430 FEET EAST/OF CRESTVIEW

Outage Status: Rescheduled
Outage Alert Num: 402997
Starting at: June 18, 2010 8:00 a.m.
Ending at: June 18, 2010 4:00 p.m.
# of Residential customers affected: 0
# of Commercial customers affected: 2
Outage Boundary: FISH CANYON ROAD EAST SIDE 200 FEET NORTH OF BROOKRIDGE ROAD