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Work Crew Causes Power Outage

Wed, Apr 14, 2010

A Madison County excavating crew doing road work south of the village accidentally caused a power outage in part of the village late Monday morning.

Village Director of Public Works and MUC Sean Graham said a piece of heavy equipment being used to do road work struck a ground wire. This caused the line's neutral wide to touch the primary wire, shorting out part of the system at the substation.

Graham said this is how the system is supposed to work to protect transmission equipment.

He said MUC workers corrected the problem quickly.

The outage lasted about and hour and 15 minutes.

Graham said the county worker driving the vehicle was unaware he hit the guide wire.

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