Community RELIGION sports digest Saturday Faith community news .............Page 6 July 15, 2006 ...................................Page 3 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Sunday: Temps to 104 7 58551 69301 0 Monday: Still sizzling 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 148 Number 97 email:
[email protected] City asks residents to conserve while electric still under repair Or rolling blackouts Substation left many in Ukiah with- substation can handle. Liz Kirkley, electrical distribution the buswork -- aluminum tubing that out power for upwards of two hours “We’re asking people to conserve engineer for the city said she did not electrically connects different sec- may be necessary Thursday afternoon, and the substa- energy,” Horsley said. “If they don’t, know when the system would be tions of the substation -- were By KATIE MINTZ tion in need of repair. or the load is too high, we’ll have to back up and running as normal. On already available at the substation. According to City Manager shut down power in areas for two Friday afternoon, repair crews were Horsley said crews worked at the The Daily Journal The City of Ukiah Electric Candace Horsley, crews will be hours at a time.” still trying to locate a part needed to substation until 2 a.m. Friday, and Department is urging customers to working over the weekend to replace The two-hour increments spread replace one that had been damaged, a returned later in the day. An engineer reduce electric usage after damage to damaged equipment, but in order to across the city in segments would task that was proving difficult from a company in Yuba City that buswork at the Gobbi Street do so, certain units will need to be reduce the load enough to keep the because of the substation’s age.