BC Hydro is planning a power outage on Saturday, Nov. 2 that will impact 1,569 customers from the southern edge of Quesnel to the northern edge of Williams Lake.
Expected to last from approximately 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., the planned outage is so crews can perform work within the Soda Creek substation, said Dave Mosure, community relations with BC Hydro.
"We are replacing two current transformers that showed initial signs of failure during regular testing earlier this year."
The outage is required, he said, because the work space does not offer enough clearance for the work to be done safely without the power shut off.
Mosure noted all impacted customers should have received some form of notification in the form of a telephone auto-dialer message, an email or a post card, depending on the details they have on their account.
Crews will strive to restore power as quickly as can be accomplished, safely, Mosure said.
Editor's note: We have added this list from the BC Hydro website of areas impacted:
They include 150 Mile House; Big Lake; Cariboo; Horsefly; Likely; McLeese Lake; Quesnel; Soda Creek and Williams Lake Hwy 97; Alexandria Ferry; Beaver Lake Rd; Beaver Valley Rd; Big Lake Rd; Big Lk Tyee Lk Rd; Boyko Rd; Cariboo Hwy; Cedar Creek Rd; Collins Rd; Duckworth Lake Rd; Dunlevy Rd; Eberding Rd; Edmunds Rd P4; Egg Lk Rd; Enright Rd; Esdilagh Rd; Forglen Rd; Foster Rd; Fraser Rd; Fraser River; Fridlington; Frontage; Gavin Lk Rd; Gibraltar Mine; Gleason; Grogan ; Harding; Harmes; Heritage Site; Hill Rd; Horsefly Likely; Jacobson; Jones; Keithley Creek; Kitsul; Knight; Lagerquist; Lakeview; Lands; Lansdowne; Lavally; Lebourdais; Lee; Lepetich; Likely; Little Lake; Macalister Rd/Sub; Marguerite Ferry; Mcintyre; Mcleese Lk Rd; Mcwilliam Pl; Miller; Moffat Lake; Moorehead; Narcosli Pit; Nicol Rd; Oasis Resort Mob Trl; Overton; Parker; Pearson; Philemon Lake; Prior Rd Lake; Pritchard; Quesnel Forks; Ridge; Roberts; Robertson; Rosette Lake; Ross; Roth; Russell; Ruttan; Salmon; Sleepy Hollow; Soda Creek Ferry; Soda Creek Macalister; Spanish Lake; Speed Cre; Spooner; Spur; Steele; Sunny; Swan; Swanson; Teasdale; Tingley; Trudeau; Tzenzaicut Lake; Webster Lake; Weil; West Fraser and Xatasull.
