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By NATALIE JOHNSON and leaned dangerously over
natalic@rnasunco~lr~ty.com the roadway. Traffic was di-
........................ verted around the damage.
A "cutout," which holds a
The Mason County PUD 3 fuse on the pole, failed early
battled three power outages Monday morning, causing
in the last week that cut pew- a fire that burned through
er to about 6,000 customers, the pole, causing it to break
On Nov. 7, 2,700 custom- in half. PUD crews used fire
ers lost power due to a power extinguishers to put out the
line insulator failure in Day- fire, and began tearing down
ton, then on early Monday the damaged pole.
morning, two outages struck This incident was particu-
on separate ends of the coun- larly dangerous, Myer said,
ty. because the pole supports
About 1,300 PUD 3 cus- both transmission and dis-
tomers on Harstine Island, tribution lines, both of which
and Picketing Road woke up were still live as the damaged
without power that day, due pole dangled over the road.
to a damaged power pole just PUD crews had to cut
west of the Harstine Island power to the lines Monday,
bridge, then replace the damaged
"We had a report that pole.
there was a loud bang and "We're looking at about
some arcing and when we 2,000 customers that are go-
went out there we found the ing to be affected by this,"
pole was damaged," said Joel Myer said.
Myer, public information and The outage affected cus-
government relations man- tomers from the Shelton
ager for the utility. Matlock Interchange west to
The initial outage hap- the Mason County line and
pened at about 10 p.m. Sun- parts of Cloquallum Road.
day night and affected only Power was restored to those
part of the island. Crews de- areas by Monday evening.
termined that power had to Atotalof2,700PUD3cus-
be cut to the island to fix the tomers were without power
damage, on Nov. 7 after a power line
Power was restored to all insulator failure at the Day-
affected customers at 8:17 ton substation west of Shel-
a.m. Monday. ton.
Another damaged power At 5:25 p.m. on Nov. 8,
pole caused headaches for customers in much of the
Matlock and Dayton resi- southwest portion of Mason
dents that morning. A pole County, including part of the
on the Shelton-Matlock Road city of Shelton, lost power.
just west of Lake Nahwatzel PUD 3 linemen restored
broke in half that morning, power to about 600 custom-
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Mason County PUD 3 linemen work to remove
a damaged power pole Monday on Shelton-
Matlock Road just west of Lake Nahwatzel.
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Journal photos by Natalie Johnson
Mason County PUD 3 crews replace a power pole Monday on Shelton-Matlock Road. The original
pole broke in half after a faulty cutout sparked a fire and burned through the pole.
ers that night by connecting
their power to another sub-
station.
"We have the .ability to
reroute electricity.., to other
substations to pick up more
customers," Myer said.
Power was restored to all
affected customers and the
damage was fixed at the Day-
ton substation at 12:55 a.m.
Thursday.
PUD 3 and Bonneville
Power Administration per-
sonnel assessed the problem,
and found that the outage
was caused by damage to
power lipe insulators at the
Dayton substation.
Insulators, also called
stacks, help keep power lines
away from each other and
the power pole, Myer said.
"One of those insulators
broke and fell and that's
what caused the outage," he
said. °
Myer said PUD staff is
not sure why the insulator
failed.
Affected areas included
Beerbower Road, Beeville
Loop Road, Carmen Road.
Dayton Airport Road,
Deckerville. Fish Hatchery
Road, Ford Road, Hidden
Haven, Highland Road,
Highway 101 North, Little
Egypt Road, Matlock, Plug
Mill Road, some areas of
Shelton, a portion of Sand-
erson Field, Satsop Road
East, Schafer Park, Shel-
ton Valley, Shelton-Mat-
lock Road, Simpson Mill 5,
West Boundary Road, Lost
Lake, Star Lake, Lake Ar-
rowhead, Badger ,Lane,
East Deegan Road and
the Shelton Matlock Inter-
change.
PUD 3 set to vote on 201 3 budget
By NATALIE JOHNSON daily customer charge fee increase, both
natalie@masoncounty.com effective April 1, 2013.
In addition to increased wholesale
power costs from the Bonneville Power
The Mason County PUD 3 Board of Com- Administration (BPA), the PUD 3 budget
missioners held a public hearing Tuesday also reflects a $1.5 million expenditure for
to discuss the utility's 2013 budget,conservation programs mandated by fed-
The board plans to take action on theeral law.
budget at its next regular meeting on Nov. PUD Finance Manager Annette Creek-
27. paum said in the past BPA has contrib-
The balanced $59 million proposed bud- uted more toward the utility's conserva-
get takes into account a 3 percent retail tion efforts, but this year will only provide
power rate increase, as well as a 10 cent $200,000.
STORE & DELl SPECIALS- NOV 15- 21
PUD 3 to conduct tree trimming
STAFF REPORT trimming and removal. Me- customers affected by this
pK~asoncouniy.com torists may experience some project.
.................................................................... traffic delays from time to If homeowners have ques-
time during these efforts, of- tions about appropriate trees
Mason County PUD 3 will ficials said. and the tree trimming pro-
be conducting a four-week Tree trimming and vegeta- gram, they can contact PUD
tree trimming project ontion management are tasks 3 Belfalr Line Superinten-
St. Andrews Drive and sur- that minimize the loss of pew- dent Mike Speaks at 275-
rounding roadways begin-er and speed up restoration of 2833, ext. 3237 or Operations
ning Monday. electricity during outages. Manager Bob Smith at ext.
The work will include tree Letters have been sent to 5268.
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