Western Power crews made significant headway over the weekend in repairing the network and restoring power supply to 2700 homes and businesses who were impacted by recent storms.
Around 1100 (down from 3800 on Saturday) remain without power, 1000 in the Wheatbelt where the largest outage located in Wongan Hills involves significant bushfire recovery work, and 100 in Perth Hills.
Power has been restored to all impacted customers across the Goldfields region.
Work being undertaken today includes:
Wheatbelt
- Fault work on a spur line in Dowerin
- Nine crews are patrolling lines between Dowerin, Wongan Hills and Bencubbin
- Helicopter patrols in around Kalannie
- Five crews working on the Wongan Hills fire ground changing poles there were 46 poles down and 35 of these were completed as of yesterday.
- Overall damage to the network in this region included 182 poles damaged (excluding Wongan Hills bushfire site where there were 46) with 102 poles repaired and work ongoing and 400 conductors being repaired.
Perth Hills
- Crews continuing repair work in Mt Helena, Gidgegannup, Stoneville and Mundaring areas.
- All the main HV lines were restored late yesterday, today work will concentrate on connecting power supply to customers
- There will be 13 construction crews and six teams working on re-connections in the area.
Goldfields
- Power has been restored to the Kalgoorlie-Boulder area through a combination of Western Power network assets, Synergy's back-up generator and a local privately owned generator.
- Work is continuing to assess options and finalise the solution for the rebuild of the 220kV transmission line.
- Poles were transported to site yesterday and work commenced to source specialist equipment needed.
- Initial construction exploration began yesterday and Western Power expects rebuild work to take seven or eight days.
"Crews are working in challenging circumstances across a large area of damaged network assets to restore power as quickly and safely as possible, we ask the community to please treat them with respect," Western Power said.
"We would also like to remind customers to treat all damaged infrastructure as live.
"If you see any damage to the network, please stay eight metres away and Make The Safe Call to Western Power on the emergency 24/7 number 13 13 51 so that emergency response crews can attend the hazard to make the area safe.
"As an acknowledgement of inconvenience experienced, customers who have experienced an outage for longer than 12 consecutive hours can apply for an extended outage payment via Extended Outages Payment once power is reconnected.
"This payment has been increased from $120 to $240."
- Stay up to date by visiting our outage page at www.westernpower.com.au/faults-outages and emergency.wa.gov.au
