Essentially, there’s two wooden poles that support a transmission line that impacts thousands of, thousands of customers. Jennifer Lewke – You know it’s an inconvenience for a lot of folks to be out of power all day on a Saturday, why is it necessary to do this project on Saturday and for that length of time?ĭavid Bertola – During routine inspections of our equipment in November we learned these urgent repairs need to be made. News10NBC Investigative Reporter Jennifer Lewke spoke with National Grid’s Communications Manager David Bertola about the planned outage. The Honeoye Falls Market is bracing to lose 90% of its revenue Saturday while National Grid does its work but thankfully, it’s sister-store in Mendon, the Mendon Medows Marketplace, will remain open as it is in RG&E’s service area, not National Grid’s. “it was too cost-prohibitive to rent a generator to run the whole store so, what we have to do on Friday is pull anything that you see around the store in a refrigerated case, we have to pull that and put it into a trailer that’s refrigerated, we have two trailers coming,” West says. Those arrangements are both costly and require a lot of manpower. “Saturday is our largest revenue day so that is a real problem for us because our inventory levels are high then, we have a full staff that day so, we really had to scramble to make some arrangements,” West explains. The manager at the market, Deric West, tells News10NBC that National Grid notified him a few days before Christmas about the planned outage for this weekend. There are signs up at the Honeoye Falls Market letting customers know that it won’t open until 4pm on Saturday due to the outage and it will have a limited selection of perishable food. On Monday, News10NBC spoke with residents who were notified that they would be impacted by the outage but businesses are bracing for the hit too. A spokesman for National Grid says the utility has to make an urgent repair to two poles and the transmission lines that run between them. The outage is scheduled to begin at 7:30 a.m. The News10NBC Team details breaking News, Traffic and Weather.īusinesses, churches and residents are bracing for a day-long power outage on Saturday. Roughly 7,300 residential and business customers of National Grid in Avon, Caledonia, Lima, and Livonia in Livingston County Bloomfield and West Bloomfield in Ontario County and Henrietta, Honeoye Falls, Mendon, and Rush in Monroe County will be impacted by the outage.
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