Report by Paula Antolini, August 11, 2020, 2:41PM EDT
Tropical Storm Isaias on August 4, 2020.
The Bethel Advocate contacted numerous Eversource officials today, and the Bethel First Selectman, regarding an update on the outage and restoration situation in Bethel. Here is one response today, Aug. 11th, 1:40pm, from Mr. Frank Poirot (listed under “Transmission Projects”) of Eversource, he said:
“We understand how difficult it is for our customers to be without power. We currently have about 2,200 line and tree crews working to restore power in the western part of the state. In Bethel, crews are responding to more than 105 trouble spots – each of these is a location with an electric issue that must be addressed, and in many cases, the problem requires re-building the electric system. Nonetheless, we continue to make steady progress toward restoring power to 99% of all our customers by 6 p.m. Thank you, Frank Poirot”
The Bethel Advocate also contacted First Selectman Matthew Knickerbocker and received a brief response, after we sent him the list of roads (shown below) of outages (NOT asking him about specific roads, but about the general restoration situation, and if he could give us a further update), and he said, in entirety, “These are all being passed on to Eversource. We do not receive feedback on them, so I am not able to answer questions about specific locations.”
There are 965 customers, of the 8,969 Eversource serves in Bethel, that are presently without electric power.
Bethel customers are supposed to get power back today at 6:00pm, according to the latest update on the Eversource website.
View the list below from comments by readers, of locations still without power, listed in the last 24 hours:
Locations in Bethel / POWER STILL OUT Aug. 11, 11:25am:
*****
1 day ago
Hoyts hill rd off Greenwood
Chimney dr off between stony hill and Benedict
Meckauer Circle/ Payne Road
Shelley road off of 302
order of Newtown/Bethel. No activity in this area at all
Shelley, Racebrook , Limekiln
No power near southern part of Bethel, Redding border, all of Jacobs Lane and surrounding roads, off Rt. 58
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Nashville Rd
Garella near Vail Rd and Maple Row
No power Chestnut Ridge Rd.
No power at the stoplight at Food bag intersection.
Hearthstone Dr
Sunset Hill
Plumtree
Apple Tree Road/Wine Sap Run
Cindy Lane off Milwaukee
Summit Lane
Rockwell between 302 and Plumtrees
Rockwell Rd
None on part of Codfish Hill
Racebrook Drive
Deepwood
Hoyt Road
Fox Den at Ridgedale off rt. 6
Payne Rd
Midway Drive
Midway drive
Apple tree between wine sap and pound sweet
Evergreen Drive and Weed Road
Hearthstone
Oak Ridge
Meckauer Circle
Garrela Rd
Ridgedale Rd.
Starr Lane between 58 & Country Way
Long Meadow Lane
Part of Oak Ridge Road
Grandview Ave.
Nashville rd Ext
Garella Rd.
Chestnut Ridge Rd
Hearthstone Drive near Sky Edge Dr.
Chimney Dr.
Aunt pattys west
*****
5H ago
Payne Rd, Shelter Rock, Sand Hill
Canaan Drive
Mountainview Terrace Danbury/Bethel
Windaway Road (Route 302)
*****
4H ago
Whippoorwill Rd. Still no power
Codfish Hill
Castle hill drive off of ayne
Dittmar rd.
*****
3H ago
No power on Highland Avenue
Cherry Lane, Pleasant Rise, Fairchild Drive, Bethpage, Susan Court
Limekiln court
Putnam Park Rd.
Shelley Road, Racebrook, Limekiln
Aunt Patty’s Lane , Jennifer’s Way . Putnam ark Rd. in the area of Stecks Nursery
Payne and Meckauer
Hoyts Hill
Summit Lane
Marywood Rd.
*****
2H ago
Bethpage
Highland Ave and Hoyts
Country Way
Nashville Rd.
*****
1HR ago
Rockwell Rd.
Garella Rd./Maple Row
Windaway
Jacobs Ln near Rt 58
*****
30-40minutes ago
Winthrop Rd
*****
10 or less minutes ago
No power Oven Rock
No power west end of Jacobs
Weed Rd
Plumtrees
North Rd, East Lanne NO Power, off Oakridge
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