More than 400 Penelec customers will be without electrical service for a portion of Thursday due to planned repair projects in Erie and Millcreek Township.
Service will be interrupted to 342 customers in west and central Erie from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. so Penelec workers can replace insulators on overhead power lines. The outage affects customers along portions of the following streets: Cochran, Myrtle, Peach, Scott, Sigsbee, Stafford, Summit, West 25th, West 26th, West 28th, West 29th and Walnut.
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In Millcreek, Penelec workers will transfer customers in the Rolling Meadows neighborhood from the old underground electrical line to the new one. The project has been centered around West 40th, West 41st and West 42nd streets, as well as Canterbury Drive and Amherst Road.
The transfer requires service be interrupted for 77 customers from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., though Penelec officials said the interruption times for both projects could be shorter.
Though temperatures are expected to reach 80 degrees Thursday, Penelec spokesman Todd Myers said the outages won’t last long enough to affect food stored in refrigerators and freezers as long as people refrain from opening them too often.
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