11/29/22 Pine Mountain Observatory Electrical Outage

Begin:  Tuesday, November 29th, 2022 at 10:00 am

End:      Tuesday, November 29th, 2022 at 3:00 pm

Building(s) or Area(s) Affected:  Pine Mountain Observatory

Scope:  There will be a planned power outage to allow Central Electric to do some system improvement work at their Hampton Substation.

If temperatures will be below freezing, the outage will be cancelled and rescheduled at a later date.  A call will be placed notifying Pine Mountain if the outage is taking place as scheduled or if it has been cancelled.

Services Impacted:  Power is expected to be offline for approximately 5 hours.

Special Instructions:  Please shut down and unplug all multi-function copier devices as well as any printers during scheduled power outages. The software on these machines can be negatively affected due to the power surge when the power is turned back on.  A power surge can corrupt the clone files in the machines and change preconfigured settings.

Work Performed By:  Central Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Contact:  Brent ten Pas, Director of Member Services and Public Relations 541-548-2144

Information on current construction and impacts can be found at UO Maps