Rockville Working To Clear Trees; Sections Regaining Power Slowly As Pepco Works

Rockville recreation and parks director Burt Hall sent along the following update on the power outage:

Pepco Truck

As far as we know Pepco is still concentrating primarily on major grid & system problems, trying to get the substations, transformers, etc. back on line, which as we understand it, is the quickest way to bring power back to large sections of the community. There have been a number of large neighborhoods that have come up this afternoon, including East Rockville and Woodley Gardens.

The City has forwarded to Pepco all of the information we have received regarding trees that are down and tangled up in wires, individual homes and businesses that have lost their connections, and any other storm related damage for which Pepco is responsible to repair. We continue to advise homeowners and businesses to contact Pepco themselves.

The City has five Forestry crews working throughout the daylight hours. We are working through and have made major progress on the many hazardous, City-owned trees along the streets and in the neighborhoods. City crews cannot do any work on down trees that have electrical wires in them without first having Pepco shut off the power; nor can contractors working on trees on private and commercial property. Pepco tells us they are not yet in a position to start assigning crews to this type of work as they are still focused on getting the big stuff repaired. Pepco is not telling us anything specific on when line clearing work will begin.

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