Veridian updates its community power outage status report

AJAX, ON, Dec. 25, 2013 /CNW/ - Veridian crews continued their power restoration efforts on Christmas Day, and were able to restore service to about 800 customers in the City of Pickering, the Town of Ajax, the Municipality of Clarington and the Municipality of Port Hope. Approximately 1,700 Veridian are currently without service due to the impacts of last weekend's ice storm.

While Veridian has maintained the strength of its line and tree trimming resources during today's holiday, restoration progress slowed as the remaining affected areas are those with the most storm-related damage. Also, much of the remaining restoration work involves supply lines located in customer backyards, making access more difficult.

Restoration activity will continue overnight. Increased resources will be deployed on Boxing Day, as Veridian has obtained additional support from other local electricity distributors that were not as affected by the weekend storm.

Following is an outage status report for each of the communities in which Veridian is aware of customers that continue to be without service:

Port Hope - All affected customers have had power restored, with the exception of a few individual customers with damaged equipment that must be repaired or replaced to accommodate reconnection.

Ajax - Approximately 850 customers remain without service. The known affected streets are summarized below. Streets that were listed in Veridian's outage status report of 3 p.m. today and have since been restored are included in this summary with a 'RESTORED' notation.

Admiral Rd	Cowling - RESTORED	Heron	Plumridge Ctr
Adonschool Ct	Cranley	Hiley	Riverside Dr
Alberry Cres - RESTORED	Dryer Dr	Illingworth	Roosvelt Ave
Archer Dr - RESTORED	Ellenbury Cres	Jacwin Dr	Stonewood
Baker	Elm Street	Jallan Dr	Strathy Dr
Bayly	Emporer	Kent St - RESTORED	Tudor Dr
Beech St	Fielding Ct	Kings Cres	Tulloch
Beer Cres	Finely Ave	Kinninson St	Windsor
Billingsgate	Forest Rd	Lawrie - RESTORED	Woodhouse
Bryant Rd - RESTORED	Gates Rd	Lewin - RESTORED	York
Bunting Ct	George	Lincoln
Burcher	Georgina Dr	Maple
Burnsborough	Greenwood Rd	Marwin
Carwin	Gregory St	Mcnamara
Ceder	Grigglestone	Monarch Ave
Church St	Harland	Parry Rd

Pickering - Approximately 850 customers remain without service. The known affected streets are summarized below. Streets that were listed in Veridian's outage status report of 3 p.m. today and have since been restored are included in this summary with a 'RESTORED' notation.

Abingdon	Gablehurt Cres	Modlin	Sunrise Ave
Annland St	Garvolin	Moretta	Tatra
Antonio	Glenanna	Mount Castle Cres	Timber Crt
Balaton	Glendale Dr - RESTORED	Naroch	Timmins
Baylawn Dr.	Glynn	Paddock Road	Tonevale Rd
Beaton Way	Golf Club Rd	Park - RESTORED	Vicki
Benton Cres.	Gossamer	Pine grove	Vistula
Bookshire Sq	Haller Ave	Pine Heights Trail	West Shore Blvd
Breda	Highbush Trail	Pineglen	Whitevale Rd w/of Altona
Chapleau	Hillcrest - RESTORED	Plummer
Clearside	Hillview - RESTORED	Primrose Crt
Conc 3 w/of Brock	Huntsmill	Redbird Cres
Conc 4 w/of Altona	Jacqueline Ave	Rouge Hill
Conc 4 w/of Brock	Jalle	Rougemount Dr
Conc 5 e/of Westney	Krosno	S/L 22 n/of Hwy 7
Conc 7 e/of Salem	Liverpool s/of Bayly	S/L 23
conc 8 e/ of Brock Road	Lubin Ave	S/L 24 n/of Con 4
Cortez	Lublin	S/L 26 s/of Conc 5
Cowan	Maplegate	S/L 34 s/of Hwy 7
Douglas	Marinet	Salk
Duberry - RESTORED	Markham Pickering Townline n/of Hwy 7	Sandcastle - RESTORED
Dyson Rd	Marksbury - RESTORED	Sandy Beach s/of Bayly
Essa	Maury Cres	Sanok - RESTORED
Eyer	McBrady Cres - RESTORED	Shay Dr - RESTORED
Fairport Rd	Meadowlane Cres	Sprucehill
Foreststream Tr	Mink - RESTORED	St. Martins Dr.

Residents or businesses that are without power and are not included in the areas summarized above should call 1-866-579-6819 to report their status.

While Veridian continues to be committed to restoring power to all affected customers as quickly as possible, equipment damage affecting individual customers may result in prolonged power outages.

In some cases, repairs to customer owned meter bases and service masts must be completed before Veridian is able to restore service to individual customers. The repair or replacement of such equipment must be carried out by a licensed electrical contractor retained by the customer. Approved contractors can be found at http://applications.dmtispatial.com/esa/ or by calling ESA at 1.877.372.7233.

Customers are reminded to exercise extreme caution around damaged poles and downed wires. All fallen wires should be considered live and dangerous. Customers are urged to report the locations of fallen wires to Veridian's 24-hour Outage Hotline by calling 1-866-579-6819.

Veridian Connections Inc. safely and reliably delivers electricity to more than 116,000 customers in the Cities of Pickering and Belleville, the Towns of Ajax, Port Hope and Gravenhurst, and the communities of Uxbridge, Bowmanville, Newcastle, Orono, Port Perry, Beaverton, Sunderland and Cannington. Veridian Connections Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Veridian Corporation. The City of Pickering, the Town of Ajax, the Municipality of Clarington and the City of Belleville jointly own Veridian Corporation.

 

SOURCE: Veridian

Chris Mace
Sales & PR Representative - Corporate Communications
Veridian Connections Inc.
905-427-9870, extension 2218