By Matt Freeze, Senior Staff Writer, Morning Times —<\/p>\n
Recent and consistent Sunday power outages over the last couple of months have been costing the Village of Owego thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n
Village Utilities Director Dirk Mosher told trustees Monday that not only are the power supply issues expensive, but continually frustrating.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s every weekend, on Sunday, power was on and off every two minutes, Mosher said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see tons of stuff on Facebook, but I never see anybody in here, in a proper forum, so I wanted to bring it up,\u201d Mosher said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy side of it \u2014 I\u2019ve spent literally tens of thousands of dollars in the last two years repairing, replacing, and hiring people to fix my equipment. Today I had to spend $200 on a power supply because of yesterday\u2019s issues, and then in addition to that, there are thousands of dollars of overtime because it always seems to be on the weekends.\u201d<\/p>\n
The village trustees echoed in a chorus that it\u2019s \u201calways every Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s thousands of dollars for people to come in and babysit the plant all day, so it doesn\u2019t go haywire,\u201d Mosher said.<\/p>\n
Deputy Mayor Charles Plater said he had seen a video on Facebook of a transformer with some sort of damage \u2014 \u201cthat was some crazy, scary stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on on the weekends,\u201d Mosher said. \u201cTransformers, they emergency replaced a pole near Adaline or Charlotte (streets) that was like waving in the breeze. But NYSEG really needs to get their stuff in gear because this is costing all these people a lot of money.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mayor Mike Baratta said NYSEG gave a basic press release answer stating that it was basically a coincidence that the outages are occurring every Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey come in and say it wasn\u2019t anything of theirs \u2014 it\u2019s the wind or the weather, the heat,\u201d Mosher said. \u201cBut, I\u2019ve been told that one person somebody knows had a $5,000 washing machine get fried, (and it\u2019s) frying TVs left and right.\u201d<\/p>\n
NYSEG previously told the Morning Times that the recent outages are \u201clargely weather-related \u2026 the recent combination of hot weather and significant rainfall has created challenging tree conditions, and some trees have even uprooted and fallen into power lines. The Sunday pattern is largely coincidental.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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