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Power outage sweeps campus, Corvallis
Lauren Dillard
Issue date: 4/9/09 Section: News
Power has been restored as of 4:49 p.m. today after as many as 11,800 customers were affected.
Students reported outages in the library, on the south side of campus (Cascade Hall) as well as around the city of Corvallis.
According to Todd Simmons, OSU spokesperson, the Faculty Senate meeting in LaSell's Stewart Center was left in the dark.
A crossbar, which was holding a transmission line, failed and the flow of power to Corvallis, ALbany and parts of Mary's Peak was severed, according to Pacific Power spokesman Tom Gauntt.
Pacific Power crews switched the flow over to a parallel transmission line to correct the problem. Power has been restored to all customers.
"It was brief, but fairly wide," according to Gaumtt.
Gaumtt was referred to one of two types of power outages. This outage affected many customers, but there effects were short term. A power outage caused near a customer's home, by something like a tree, affects very few. However, it can be a much more long term problem.
Traffic lights over much of the city were affected as well.
Fixing the actual crossbar, where the problem occurred, may take a while, but power will continue to flow, according to Gaumtt.
Students reported outages in the library, on the south side of campus (Cascade Hall) as well as around the city of Corvallis.
According to Todd Simmons, OSU spokesperson, the Faculty Senate meeting in LaSell's Stewart Center was left in the dark.
A crossbar, which was holding a transmission line, failed and the flow of power to Corvallis, ALbany and parts of Mary's Peak was severed, according to Pacific Power spokesman Tom Gauntt.
Pacific Power crews switched the flow over to a parallel transmission line to correct the problem. Power has been restored to all customers.
"It was brief, but fairly wide," according to Gaumtt.
Gaumtt was referred to one of two types of power outages. This outage affected many customers, but there effects were short term. A power outage caused near a customer's home, by something like a tree, affects very few. However, it can be a much more long term problem.
Traffic lights over much of the city were affected as well.
Fixing the actual crossbar, where the problem occurred, may take a while, but power will continue to flow, according to Gaumtt.
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