PETERSBURG – Petersburg Municipal Power & Light shut down power on June 19 in order to replace a Southeast Alaska Power Agency transmission pole in Falls Creek.
The power was shut off from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. between Twin Creek road and Crystal Lake Hatchery, said Scott Newman, general foreman with Petersburg Municipal Power & Light. Since the transmission pole was owned by SEAPA and not the city, SEAPA sent out their own
contractors to conduct the work, said Newman. Petersburg Municipal Power & Light assisted SEAPA with some of the work and with shutting down the power, but the contractors did most of the work.
“Wrangell lent them the bucket,” said Newman. “We let them use our line truck. Everybody kind of helped out.”
In September, SEAPA will be working in Wrangell and needs the transmission line turned off for four days, said public works director Karl Hagerman. Petersburg will be running on diesel while the work is being done and will not experience a power outage, said Hagerman.
“We don’t want there to be outages in our system, but sometimes we have to take outages to do maintenance,” said Hagerman.
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