We live in what is locally dubbed (powercut alley) a lot of our problems are caused by trees growing through the overhead powerlines.
When our substation was renewed and the overhead 11KV powerline was refurbished and some of it being buried we thought our problems were over.It was for a year and now the powercuts are back.
At the moment our there's a big bunch of conifer trees growing thought the powerlines and that line has broke twice previously on that section so we are waiting for it to break again.
I did report this on a saturday afternoon at 8pm the same day the repair crew turned up outside my house and they told me it needed urgent attention that was last november and nothing has been done to date.
Back in 1998 a sycamore tree grew through the line under the repair barrel in pic 2 and the line broke our power kept going off and on and a fire engine went up our road.
I went and had a look what was happening it was the power line landed in a bush arcing buzzing then there would be pauses when the auto re-closers would cut the power and then re-close bringing the power back on thus setting the bush on fire and a field next to it full of dry wheat.
The fire brigade contacted the DNO and they said they could not shut the power down until an engineer arrived which would be a few hours.
So after the refurbishment they didn't do a good job of hanging the cables and those cables are 51 years old thats when this line was erected.
Can you imagine the possible consequences of this situation like kids love climbing trees.
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When our substation was renewed and the overhead 11KV powerline was refurbished and some of it being buried we thought our problems were over.It was for a year and now the powercuts are back.
At the moment our there's a big bunch of conifer trees growing thought the powerlines and that line has broke twice previously on that section so we are waiting for it to break again.
I did report this on a saturday afternoon at 8pm the same day the repair crew turned up outside my house and they told me it needed urgent attention that was last november and nothing has been done to date.
Back in 1998 a sycamore tree grew through the line under the repair barrel in pic 2 and the line broke our power kept going off and on and a fire engine went up our road.
I went and had a look what was happening it was the power line landed in a bush arcing buzzing then there would be pauses when the auto re-closers would cut the power and then re-close bringing the power back on thus setting the bush on fire and a field next to it full of dry wheat.
The fire brigade contacted the DNO and they said they could not shut the power down until an engineer arrived which would be a few hours.
So after the refurbishment they didn't do a good job of hanging the cables and those cables are 51 years old thats when this line was erected.
Can you imagine the possible consequences of this situation like kids love climbing trees.
Andy View media item 30188
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Andy