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Show Failure At Dam Causes Power Outage In Area A failure at Glen Canyon Dam June 28 resulted in a loss of power to several communities served by Garkanc Power Association. Spokesmen at the dam reported a transformer differential problem caused electrical equipment to open the Garkane circuit disrupting service ser-vice to consumers in Southern Utah and Northern Arizona. . Garkanc Power's assistant manager, man-ager, Carl Albrecht, said the outage occurred at approximately 6:25 p.m. "We responded to numerous phone calls from consumers. Un- fortunately, all we could do was ask them to be patient while personnel at Glen Canyon corrected the situation. situa-tion. Service to the area was restored re-stored within 25 minutes." Albrecht indicate Garkane is completing . survey work for a transmission line from Hurricane to Colorado City which will provide a loop feed into the Kanab area. "When the new line is built our depending on the operations at Glen Canyon Dam will be somewhat reduced, re-duced, helping us to avoid prolonged pro-longed outages from the dam," concluded Albrecht |