Pinned Post* all day today. Updates from the little City of Lake Worth on electric outages and progress to date.

Scroll down for Special Update #24 below. A MUST READ!

First, in case you missed this, a message from Mr. Ed Liberty, Director of Lake Worth Electric Utility:

“Outage update following Hurricane Irma for City of Lake Worth Electric Utilities following loss of power on Sunday, September 10th.”



Use this link to read Hurricane Irma Update #21 from the City and please share this information with the media, local press beat reporters, and with your friends and neighbors as well.

UPDATE: For update #22
use this link:

“Notes from Walt Gill, Asst. Director of Lake Worth Electric Utility. ‘Day 2 [Sept. 13th] was a good day.’ ”

Update #24 [dated 9/13]; excerpt:

The Lake Worth Electric Service Territory covers 12.5 square miles and contains a total of 41 system circuits. Crews have been able to re-energize 26 of these circuits, leaving 15 circuits left to energize.
     Approximately 48% of the system has been restored, which equates to 12,589 customers. This leaves 13,821 customer outages. Key pick-ups today [yesterday, Sept. 13th]:

• Second 138kV Feed from FPL into our single [as in 1] Tie Line.
• Second half of Palm Beach State College, JFK Charter, Barton Elementary, South Grade Elementary, Lake Worth Middle School.
• Solar Field was connected to the system and producing mWs again.
• South West County Medical Park, the last 3 substations in the northeast quadrant, 2½ north central city circuits, southwest county circuit including RaceTrac and Speedway gas stations at Congress Ave. and Lake Worth Rd.
• West central county including Bodegon and Wawa gas station at Congress Ave. and Lake Worth Rd.

Tomorrow [today, Thursday 9/14], between our City crews and mutual aid crews there will be a total of 101 linemen and 8 tree crews (16 men), on the ground continuing to restore power.

Have you tried using the Lake Worth Power Tracker yet? You can watch in real time as the City of
Lake Worth gets powered up again!

*A “Pinned Post” is one kept at or near the top of the blog for a period of time as determined by Yours Truly. As always, Thank You for visiting today and hope your electric power is restored shortly in the Lake Worth Electric Utility service area.