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Cochrane Telecom Services

Date: May 26, 2010
Time power went out: 4:45 p.m.
Time power was restored: 6:00 p.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: All of Kapuskasing
# Customers affected: 2200
Reason: Tree contacts/ adverse weather

Date: March 21, 2010
Time power went out: 4:25 p.m.
Time power was restored: 6:45 p.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: Pine Street
# Customers affected: 1
Reason: Tree contacts/ adverse weather

Date: February 20, 2010
Time power went out: 9:00 a.m.
Time power was restored: 9:45 a.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: All
# Customers affected: 2200
Reason: Loss of supply - Hydro One

Date: February 18, 2010
Time power went out: 2:10 p.m.
Time power was restored: 2:45 p.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: All
# Customers affected: 2200
Reason: MSB feeders required repair

 

Date: February 1, 2010
Time power went out: 7:45 p.m.
Time power was restored: 12:45 a.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: Kennedy, Avenue, Manor, Kimberly
# Customers affected: 30
Reason: Defective equipment/ adverse weather. Burnt in-line switch on 5kV line.

 

Date: January 27, 2010
Time power went out: 9:00 a.m.
Time power was restored: 1:00 p.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: 1st Ave. East to 10th/11th Ave to lane to 7th Street
# Customers affected: Approximately 1000
Reason: Defective Equipment - blown fuse

 

Date: October 30, 2009
Time power went out: 9:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: 1:00 a.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: Devonshire St.
# Customers affected: 4
Reason: Tree contacts - adverse weather

 

Date: October 30, 2009
Time power went out: 7:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: 9:00 p.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: Riverside Dr.
# Customers affected: 15
Reason: Tree contacts - adverse weather

 

Date: October 30, 2009
Time power went out: 12:19 p.m.
Time power was restored: 12:26 p.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: All
# Customers affected: 2200
Reason: Adverse weather - loss of supply (wind storm)

 

Date: October 25, 2009
Time power went out: 8:00 a.m.
Time power was restored: 1:00 p.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: Kennedy St., Avenue Rd.
# Customers affected: 15
Reason: Defective equipment - repair wire

 

Date: October 24, 2009
Time power went out: 8:06 a.m.
Time power was restored: 8:36 a.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: All
# Customers affected: 2200
Reason: Loss of Supply - Hydro One

 

Date: October 24, 2009
Time power went out: 9:30 a.m.
Time power was restored: 2:30 p.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: 25 Brunetville Rd.
# Customers affected: 1
Reason: Defective equipment - meter box

 

Date: October 12, 2009
Time power went out: 11L50 a.m.
Time power was restored: 12:05 p.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: Town km Feeder
# Customers affected: 2200
Reason: Defective equipment - loose wire

 

Date: September 28, 2009
Time power went out: 9:30 p.m.
Time power was restored: 1:45 a.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: Kennedy St., Sussex Dr. Seaborn Ave.
# Customers affected: 15
Reason: Tree Contacts following adverse weather

 

Date: September 11, 2009
Time power went out: 7:30 p.m.
Time power was restored: 9:00 p.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: Old Townsite
# Customers affected: 50
Reason: Tree Contacts following heavy rain

 

Date: August 25, 2009
Time power went out: 9:45 p.m.
Time power was restored: 2:15 a.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: Uptown Feeder
# Customers affected: 900
Reason: Tree Contacts - At Lakefront and Railway

Date: August 20, 2009
Time power went out: 12:45 p.m.
Time power was restored: 3:10 p.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: All
# Customers affected: 2200
Reason: Loss of Supply - Hydro One

 

Date: August 20, 2009
Time power went out: 12:25 p.m.
Time power was restored: 3:10 p.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: All
# Customers affected: 2200
Reason: Loss of Supply - Hydro One

 

Date: July 27, 2009
Time power went out: 9:30 a.m.
Time power was restored: 11:00 a.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: Upper town site in old Iroquois Falls
# Customers affected: 300
Reason: Tree contacts.


Date: July 23, 2009
Time power went out: 9:20 a.m.
Time power was restored: 10:30 a.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: 16th and 17th avenues between 4th and 5th street
# Customers affected: 30
Reason: Foreign interference: crow

 

Date: July 13, 2009
Time power went out: 12:45 p.m.
Time power was restored: 1:45 p.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: Huron St. & St. Clair
# Customers affected: 10
Reason: Foreign interference: crow


Date: July 12, 2009
Time power went out: 7:30 p.m.
Time power was restored: 8:30 p.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: Superior St.
# Customers affected: 3
Reason: Foreign interference: crow

 

Date: July 11, 2009
Time power went out: 7:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: 11:00 p.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: 5th Ave, 6th Ave, Railway St.
# Customers affected: 125
Reason: Defective Equipment - Blown fuse


Date: July 3, 2009
Time power went out: 10:45 a.m.
Time power was restored: 12:45 p.n.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: Superior St.
# Customers affected: 5
Reason: Foreign interference: crow

 

Date: June 18, 2009
Time power went out: 10:30 a.m.
Time power was restored: 11:15 a.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: Old legion and KFC
# Customers affected: 2
Reason: Foreign interference: crow


Date: June 15, 2009
Time power went out: 3:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: 5:00 p.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: Mundy St., King St., Stewart St.
# Customers affected: 12
Reason: Defective equipment, scheduled, pole being changed


Date: June 6, 2009
Time power went out: 7:05 p.m.
Time power was restored: 8:05 p.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: O.P.G
# Customers affected: 2
Reason: Defective equipment

 

Date: June 2, 2009
Time power went out: 12:14 p.m.
Time power was restored: 2:00 p.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: Main Feeder
# Customers affected: 2200
Reason: Foreign interference - excavator in contact with wires

 

Date: May 14, 2009
Time power went out: 10:00 a.m.
Time power was restored: 11:40 a.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: East feeder
# Customers affected: 600-800
Reason: Defective equipment - blown dead end glass

 

Date: May 14, 2009
Time power went out: 8:30 a.m.
Time power was restored: 10:30 a.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: 8th Street Feeder
# Customers affected: 4
Reason: Defective equipment - broken switch

 

Date: April 26, 2009
Time power went out: 7:00 a.m.
Time power was restored: 10:00 a.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: All customers on Montrock feeder
# Customers affected: 300
Reason: Scheduled power outage

 

Date: April 23, 2009
Time power went out: 8:45 p.m.
Time power was restored: 9:30 p.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: Cable TV Tower
# Customers affected: 1
Reason: Unknown disruption

 

Date: March 26, 2009
Time power went out: 8:40 a.m.
Time power was restored: 10:00 a.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: Polar Bear Habitat, Tembec
# Customers affected: 2
Reason: Foreign interference - crow

 

Date: March 21, 2009
Time power went out: 10:00 a.m.
Time power was restored: 11:00 a.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: 61-77 Seventh St.
# Customers affected: 9
Reason: Defective Equipment

 

Date: March 11, 2009
Time power went out: 10:30 a.m.
Time power was restored: 11:30 a.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: Montrock Feeder
# Customers affected: 100
Reason: Blown fuse

 

Date: February 11, 2009
Time power went out: 3:30 a.m.
Time power was restored: 1:00 a.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: Downtown core
# Customers affected: 100
Reason: Fire in circle

 

Date: February 11, 2009
Time power went out: 3:30 a.m.
Time power was restored: 5:00 a.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: All customers
# Customers affected: 2142
Reason: Fire in downtown core

 

Date: December 28, 2008
Time power went out: 11:00 a.m.
Time power was restored: 4:00 p.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: West feeder east of O.P.P. Station
# Customers affected: 7
Reason: Adverse weather

 

Date: December 28, 2008
Time power went out: 5:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: 8:00 p.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: 5th & 6th Avenue at 4th Street
# Customers affected: 5
Reason: Adverse weather

 

Date: December 23, 2008
Time power went out: 5:00 a.m.
Time power was restored: 9:00 a.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: Rear 115-109 Devonshire, rear 22-30 Murdock
# Customers affected: 9
Reason: Defective equipment, broken fuse barrel

 

Date: December 20, 2008
Time power went out: 11:30 p.m.
Time power was restored: 4:00 a.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: 15th & 16th Ave. between 5th & 6th St.
# Customers affected: 20
Reason: Defective equipment

 

Date: November 26, 2008
Time power went out: 8:15 a.m.
Time power was restored: 8:30 a.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: Railway St. to 3rd St.
# Customers affected: 4
Reason: Adjust voltage for BNS

 

Date: November 26, 2008
Time power went out: 7:30 a.m.
Time power was restored: 8:30 a.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: Teefy St. from Rapid St. to Detroyes & Zealand
# Customers affected: 56
Reason: Broken switch

 

Date: November 26, 2008
Time power went out: 1:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: 1:15 p.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: 2nd - 3rd Ave. between 6th - 7th st.
# Customers affected: 14
Reason: Transfer open bus to new pole

 

Date: November 24, 2008
Time power went out: 2:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: 2:15 p.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: 2nd - 3rd Ave between 7th - 8th St.
# Customers affected: 15
Reason: Install new secondary bus

 

Date: October 28, 2008
Time power went out: 4:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: 6:00 p.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: West end
Reason: Backhoe equipment came in contact with feeder on Second Street

 

Date: October 4, 2008
Time power went out: 3:30 p.m.
Time power was restored: 7:00 p.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: Victoria, O'mara, Reynolds block
Reason: Defective equipment - broken switch

 

Date: September 29, 2008
Time power went out: 10:20 a.m.
Time power was restored: 11:30 a.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: East feeder from substation to Hillcrest
Reason: Blown fuse due to animal interference.

 

Date: September 28, 2008
Time power went out: 4:30 p.m.
Time power was restored: 11:00 a.m. (October 29th)
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: Jus Jordan Arena
Reason: Defective equipment (blown fuses)

 

Date: September 25, 2008
Time power went out: 2:30 p.m.
Time power was restored: 4:00 p.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: Hospital
Reason: Defective equipment

 

Date: September 14, 2008
Time power went out: 7:00 a.m.
Time power was restored: 1:00 p.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: Entire Town
Reason: Scheduled outage by Hydro One for upgrades to MSB station

 

Date: September 13, 2008
Time power went out: 2:00 pm. & 4:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: less than a minutes
Town affected: Cochrane and Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: North East end
Reason: Loss of supply due to Hydro One problems with Ansonville station.

 

Date: August 29, 2008
Time power went out: 3:29 a.m.
Time power was restored: 9:30 a.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: Downtown area
Reason: Adverse weather and defective equipment

 

Date: August 5, 2008
Time power went out: 5:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: 5:30 p.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: Teefy, Radio, Ste. Helen
Reason: Lightning hit

 

Date: August 5, 2008
Time power went out: 5:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: 6:00 p.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: Bottem end of Devonshire
Reason: Lightning hit

 

Date: August 5, 2008
Time power went out: 5:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: 6:30 p.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: Middle Victoria Block
Reason: Lightning hit

 

Date: August 5, 2008
Time power went out: 5:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: 10:30 p.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: Top end of Devonshire and Aurora
Reason: Lightning hit

 

Date: July 29, 3008
Time power went out: 10:45 a.m.
Time power was restored: 12:30 p.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: Huron, 14th Ave, 15th Ave, 7th St.
Reason: Crow blew fuse.

 

Date: July 15/16, 2008
Time power went out: 8:30 p.m.
Time power was restored: 12:45 am.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: 398 10th Ave. 29 Algonquin, 370 5th Ave. 20 Iroquois, 127 5th St. 260 16th Ave. 317 6th St.
Reason: Due to storm, lightning and high winds. Blown line fuses.

 

Date: July 14, 2008
Time power went out: 8:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: 9:00 p.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: Victoria Rd. and Centennial St. block
Reason: Squirrel interference

 

Date: June 24, 2008
Time power went out: 1:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: 2:35 p.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: 14th / 15th Avenue Lane at 6th St.
Reason: Scheduled outage

 

Date: June 23, 2008
Time power went out: 2:45 p.m.
Time power was restored: 4:30 p.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: Upper feeder in old Townsite
Reason: Lightning hit top of pole. Damaged insulators.

 

Date: June 23, 2008
Time power went out: 12:30 p.m.
Time power was restored: 1:30 p.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: 2nd St. Mall
Reason: Defective equipment - burnt stir up

 

Date: June 22, 2008
Time power went out: 9:00 a.m.
Time power was restored: 12:15 p.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: 15th - 16th Ave lane between 6th St.
Reason: Interference (animals)

 

Date: June 13, 2008
Time power went out: 4:15 p.m.
Time power was restored: 5:45 p.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: O.P.P. Station east to Tembec
Reason: Defective Equipment, lost one phase on east feeder.

 

Date: June 10, 2008
Time power went out: 4:15 a.m.
Time power was restored: 6:30 a.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: Polar Bear Habitat and Tembec
Reason: Problem with cut-out

 

Date: June 7, 2008
Time power went out: 3:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: 5:00 p.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: Polar Bear Habitat and parts of west feeder
Reason: Fallen tree in contact with wires due to winds

 

Date: June 6, 2008
Time power went out: 3:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: 3:30 p.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: 10 customers at end of Teefy St.
Reason: Repairs to broken service

 

Date: June 1, 2008
Time power went out: 6:00 a.m.
Time power was restored: 9:00 a.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: South of ONR tracks, Sheridan St.
Reason: Scheduled outage for maintenance

 

Date: May 26, 2008
Time power went out: 6:00 a.m.
Time power was restored: 7:43 a.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: 8-38 Mundy St.; 6-10 King St.; 88-100 Riverside Dr.
Reason: Scheduled outage for Construction

 

Date: April 27, 2008
Time power went out: 7:15 a.m.
Time power was restored: 12:30 p.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: Entire Town
Reason: Scheduled outage to upgrade metering point

 

Date: April 13, 2008
Time power went out: 8:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: 10:30 p.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: Polar Bear Park
Reason: Defective Equipment - blown fuse

 

Date: April 13, 2008
Time power went out: 7:00 a.m.
Time power was restored: 1:00 pm.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: Between Railway Street and 3rd Street
Reason: Scheduled outage for upgrades

 

Date: April 12, 2008
Time power went out: 2:30 p.m.
Time power was restored: 3:30 p.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: Lane between 14th-15th avenues and between 3rd-4th streets
Reason: Fire

 

Date: April 8-9, 2008
Time power went out: 11:30 p.m.
Time power was restored: 7:30 a.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: Tembec mill and Polar Bear park
Reason: Defective Equipment - faulty arrestor

 

Date: April 8, 2008
Time power went out: 3:15 a.m.
Time power was restored: 8:00 a.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: Drury Place (35 units)
Reason: Defective equipment and adverse weather.

 

Date: February 22, 2008
Time power went out: 1:55 p.m.
Time power was restored: 2:30 p.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: Victoria Rd & Centennial St. Block
Reason: Defective Equipment - broken cut-out

 

Date: February 21, 2008
Time power went out: Approximately 1:30 p.m.
Time power was restored: Approximately 1:35 p.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: 600 customers - Old Town Site
Reason: Unknown bump in system

 

Date: February 3, 2008
Time power went out: 2:11 p.m.
Time power was restored: 3:10 p.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: One Customer 232 Cambridge
Reason: Defective Equipment - fuse cutout

 

Date: January 5, 2008
Time power went out: 10:50 p.m.
Time power was restored: 12:30 a.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: Parts of Fourth and Thirds Avenue
Reason: Fire

 

Date: December 29, 2007
Time power went out: 6:30 p.m.
Time power was restored: 9:30 a.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: Sixth & Seventh Avenues
Reason: Defective Equipment - clamp burned off conductor

 

Date: December 23, 2007
Time power went out: 1:51 a.m.
Time power was restored: 2:54 a.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: All NOW Inc. customers
Reason: Adverse weather - freezing rain caused insulators to crack.

 

Date: December 20, 2007
Time power went out: 11:45 p.m.
Time power was restored: 2:30 a.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: Transfiguration Church & Rectory
Reason: Defective Equipment - Fuse cutout

 

Date: October 26, 2007
Time power went out: 9:15 a.m.
Time power was restored: 10:30 a.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: 13th - 14th Avenue block (12 houses)
Reason: Installing new pole and anchor

 

Date: October 21, 2007
Time power went out: 6:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: 7:00 p.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: 13th - 14th avenue block
Reason: Burnt v/6 connection. Had to repair

 

Date: September 23, 2007
Time power went out: 8:05 a.m.
Time power was restored: 12:00 noon
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: East end of Town
Reason: Scheduled outage for Boisvert Cr. upgrade.

 

Date: September 22, 2007
Time power went out: 11:30 a.m.
Time power was restored: 2:30 p.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: East Feeder
Reason: Wind damage. Phase hit pole

 

Date: September 22, 2007
Time power went out: 5:00 a.m.
Time power was restored: 6:45 a.m.
Town affected: Cochrane
Areas affected: 499 3rd Street
Reason: Trees on line due to high winds

 

Date: September 22, 2007
Time power went out: 7:31 a.m.
Time power was restored: 7:57 a.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: Whole Town
Reason: Hydro One switching feeders

 

Date: September 19, 2007
Time power went out: 8:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: 9:30 p.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: Spruce Street (10 customers)
Reason: Lightning hit. Replaced arrestors and drop lead.

 

Date: September 19, 2007
Time power went out: 5:00 p.m.
Time power was restored: 7:35 p.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: Whole Town
Reason: Tree fell due to high winds. Outage necessary to remove tree from feeder.

 

Date: September 22, 2007
Time power went out: 2:46 p.m.
Time power was restored: 4:02 p.m.
Town affected: Iroquois Falls
Areas affected: Whole Town
Reason: Hydro One outage re: switching feeders

 

Date: March 18, 2007
Time power went out: 11:04 p.m.
Time power was restored: 11:06 p.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: Lang Street
Reason: Fire on Lang Street

 

Date: March 18, 2007
Time power went out: 8:30 p.m.
Time power was restored: 9:00 p.m.
Town affected: Kapuskasing
Areas affected: Lang Street
Reason: Fire on Lang Street

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