Northern Connector, February 21, 2014

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Wooden tower (above) was constructed and erected late last week by BC Hydro crews, enabling the provincial crown corporation to restore power to the Nass Valley, Meziadin and Stewart. It replaced a steel tower (below) which collapsed Feb. 11. Thousands of people were without power until mid afternoon on Feb. 15.

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Power restored by BC Hydro crews TERRACE - BC Hydro restored power to residents of Stewart, Meziadin and the Nass Valley at 3:03 p.m. Feb. 15 who had been without power for four days. A transmission tower had fallen over Feb. 11, cutting off power in the late afternoon to thousands of northwestern BC residents. Local BC Hydro crews were assisted by ones flown in from the lower mainland. Bad weather Feb. 11 initially hampered efforts to identify the problem. And bad weather also hampered attempts to fly in the crews, supplies and equipment by helicopter to the tower which was

in a remote location above Lava Lake, just south of the Nass Valley and about 70km north of Terrace. In all, nine BC Hydro employees worked to restore power. It’s still not known why the 55-foot high steel tower had toppled; the wooden replacement is 70 feet high. Crews had to blast holes into rock in order to secure the wooden tower. The outage led to schools being closed in communities. People with backup generators were able to provide power for themselves. Some communities established warming centres and orga-

nized meals. Homes with fireplaces or wood stoves fared well during the outage. A back-up generator was used to power a pump for water supply in Gingolx, and volun-

teers prepared meals for community members at the Gingolx Memorial Centre. It is not unusual to have power outages in the region but this one was longer than ones that took place in the past.

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