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Mark Nixon : 517-702-6735 MDN@LBWL.COM

*UPDATE*
BWL working around the clock to restore
power to more than 13,000 customers

Lansing Board of Water & Light crews today are making steady progress in restoring electrical power to more than 13,000 customers following weekend storms in the Greater Lansing area.

By mid-afternoon Sunday, BWL crews had restored power to all but about 5,500 customers. However, a storm Sunday afternoon knocked out power to about 10,000 additional customers. As of 7 a.m. today, about 13,700 customers are still without power.

The outages are widespread, although Sunday’s storm hit the west side of Lansing and Delta Township particularly hard. Power outages are mainly due to high winds that downed wires and as well as tree limbs that fell on power lines.

BWL crews remain working around the clock to restore power to affected homes and businesses. It may be Wednesday evening before power is restored to all customers.

Customers can report a downed power line by calling 371-6314 or 371-6000. Residents are warned not to go near downed power lines.

Sunday’s high winds also caused the loss of a cooling tower at the BWL’s Eckert Power Station. Eckert has five cooling towers, which are used to cool water from the Grand River before it is returned to the river. The water is used to condense steam that is used for electrical generation.

The winds ripped the cooling tower from its moorings. A second cooling sustained serious damage as well. The loss of the cooling tower does not affect the Eckert station’s ability to generate electricity.

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