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Emergency Outage for customers in Springdale Region

May 22nd, 2015

Update – 10:45PM – All customers restored at 10:40PM. Thanks to customers for their patience while crews worked to restore power.

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Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro (Hydro) advises that an emergency repair is required on a piece of equipment at the Springdale Terminal Station.

The repair requires an emergency power outage for about 800 customers in the following Hydro communities:

Little Bay
St. Patrick’s
Beachside
Jackson’s Cove
King’s Point
Rattling Brook
Harry’s Harbour

As well, approximately 1600 Newfoundland Power customers in the Springdale area will be impacted.

The outage will begin at approximately 7:30 and last for about three hours. Updates will be provided if the situation changes.

Hydro apologizes for the inconvenience caused by this outage.

For information on how to stay safe during outages visit www.hydrosafety.com.

You can follow us at Twitter.com/NLHydro and Facebook.com/NLHydro for updates.



Media Contact:

Jill Pitcher
Senior Communications Advisor, Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro
t. 709.737.1219 / c. 709.689.9938 e. JillPitcher@nlh.nl.ca