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Show Green River Power Out For 14 Hours Electric power service in Green River was back to normal Tuesday after Utah Power & Light Co. crews replaced re-placed a faulty transformer whose failure blacked out power to the community for 15 hours Sunday night and Monday morning. The massive new 13-ton replacement transformer was dispatched to Green River by special highway equipment equip-ment needed to handle the heavy load. The power outage occurred at 10 p.m. Sunday after the transformer feeding the town from a high voltage source failed In the meantime, special crews from Utah Power & Light under the direction of Blaine Shields and L. B. Stringer of Moab, were rushed rush-ed to the community to make temporary field repairs and service restoration until the new transformer arrived later Monday. Tuesday a portable substation sub-station equipped with "a. transformer was sent to Green River to handle power pow-er feeding the city while the new replacement was installed. in-stalled. Use of the portable sub-station eliminated any service discontinuance. The Sunday outage affected affect-ed all of the community and extended south to the Utah launch complex of White Sands Missile Base. During the power outage, Green River residents bundled bund-led up wlren temperatures lowered to 25 degrees. Food was no problem; some service ser-vice stations pumped gas manually or with portable generators. Meanwhile, some 300 personnel per-sonnel at the Missile Launch Complex got an unexpected holiday due to the power outage. out-age. According to J. R. Taylor, general engineer at the Green River base, voltage began fading at about 10 p.m., Feb. 9, and by midnight, all the power was out With temperatures in the low 20's, all activity except essential services was shut down. Only about 100 personnel pers-onnel remained on duty Monday. Mr. Taylor said that shortly short-ly after a transformer in Green River failed, omerg-citcy omerg-citcy power was provided for communications and security secur-ity activities, and the base's launch site. Later in the morning generator power was hooked up to the site's dining hall. Electricity was restored at about 2 p.m. Monday by the Utah Power & Light Co. Employees assigned at Green River include active duty personnel of the Army and Air Foi-ce, as well as government employees and members of contractor firms of both services. |
