Politics & Government

Another Power Outage Headed to Doylestown

PECO will be cutting power to about 20 customers overnight to replace a transformer.

Doylestown will be losing power again today - but this time, it's planned.

PECO is cutting off the power overnight tonight to about 20 customers on N. Main Street near Broad Street. The service interruption will allow the company to replace a transformer, a company representative told Doylestown Borough officials on Wednesday.

The power will be switched off from 10 p.m. Thursday to 7 a.m. Friday, PECO said.

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Customers affected include those in the block that stretches from 72. N. Main St. to the James-Lorah Memorial House at 132 N. Main, across from the Bucks County Courthouse.

The customers were all to be notified of the scheduled outage on Wednesday, PECO said.

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The electric company has been inspecting its manholes in Doylestown as part of an investigation into the repeated power outages that have plagued town since January.

During recent inspections, PECO "identified the need to replace a transformer as soon as feasible."

The customers on the circuit governed by the transformer being replaced have not lost power during the recent power outages, the company said.

Doylestown Borough Manager John Davis invited PECO representatives to discuss the outages and the status of its investigation at borough council's public works committee meeting at 6 p.m. on Sept. 15.

Doylestown has lost power six times since January. Most of the outages have affected the downtown business district.

The and forced the closure of several businesses. The cause of that outage was traced to underground equipment in front of the County Theater.

The most into Monday the 15th. As many as 200 customers lost power in that outage, which was traced to two underground transformers near the Doylestown Bookshop.

PECO conducted an investigation last spring,

But after the most recent outage, the investigation ratcheted up a notch.

"This has actually reached the desk of the CEO," Davis said last Friday, "and he has, for all intents and purposes, demanded a corrective action plan for downtown Doylestown on his desk by the middle of (this) week."


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