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Power & Water: A Examination of How Things Went Wrong

  • A pump jack on East Radhost School Road stood idle last Tuesday as a plume of steam rises from the Fayette Power Project in the background.
    A pump jack on East Radhost School Road stood idle last Tuesday as a plume of steam rises from the Fayette Power Project in the background.
A better picture began to emerge this week of what happened to the area’s electrical systems during the recent winter storm. Some Fayette County residents had power for only a few hours over the course of three days last week while other areas never lost power. The ice itself lay partly to blame. The weight of that ice caused power lines to fall and trees to fall into lines. At a meeting called…

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