Power Outage Affects 1,300

Herald of Nov. 2, 1995

Approximately 1,300 customers in the Southern Cove area lost electrical service for about 2-1/2 hours last week. The outage happened about 5:45 p.m. Friday and power was restored around 8 p.m. Approximately 1,100 New Enterprise Rural Electric Co. customers on the Waterside substation were affected by the outage, including those in New Enterprise, Woodbury, Waterside and along Woodbury Pike. About 200 Penelec customers also were affected by the outage. Trees growing into some wires caused a disruption in Waterside, while a bank of transformers malfunctioned in New Enterpr...