Forest Lakes, Vallecito and Lemon reservoir areas back online
A widespread power outage hit nearly 3,000 La Plata Electric Association customers north of Bayfield on Friday. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
La Plata Electric Association restored power to 2,908 members who lost power for nearly 3½ hours Friday in a widespread outage that hit residents in the Forest Lakes subdivision and the Vallecito and Lemon reservoir areas.
LPEA spokeswoman Amanda Anderson said a Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association substation in Bayfield, which feeds power to an LPEA substation that powers the affected areas, went down at 10:56 a.m.
Almost all customers were restored by 2:15 p.m.
Anderson said a crew from Tri-State was dispatched around 12:45 p.m. to diagnose and address the outage. Because it was not an LPEA substation that went out, she did not know the cause of the outage.
A power outage affected 2,910 La Plata Electric Association customers north of Bayfield in the Forest Lakes subdivision and Vallecito and Lemon reservoir areas. The outage was reported shortly before 11 a.m. Friday. (Screenshot)
