A power outage affected almost 7,000 customers Monday morning in the Bayfield and Ignacio areas.
Almost 7,000 customers were without power Monday morning in the Bayfield and Ignacio areas.
The outage was reported at 7:32 a.m., and crews were able to isolate and re-energize the Ignacio and Bayfield substations at 8:03 a.m. Power was restored to all members, including the Elmore’s Corner area, as of 9:45 a.m.
The outage was the result of a downed transmission line at 3530 County Road 223, northeast of Elmore’s Corner, according to a news release issued Monday by LPEA.
The transmission line is a main backbone to LPEA’s substations that serve Bayfield and Ignacio.
The outage affected 6,934 customers. The cause of the downed line was unknown.
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