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Lights go out in two Coquitlam neighbourhoods

The first Coquitlam outage left about 1,700 houses without power while the planned outage near Miller Park affected 47 BC Hydro customers

Correction: the article orginally stated the first power outage affected Port Coquitlam when, in fact, most of the neighbourhoods affected are in the city of Coquitlam.

The lights went out for about 1,700 Coquitlam customers Tuesday at around 8 p.m. due to an underground equipment fault.

The outage affected the neighbourhoods of Essondale, Mayfair and Dartmoor, and extended to the south side of Highway 1 to the Fraser River.

 

About 900 homes had their power restored by about 9:45 p.m., while the rest had to wait until 7:30 a.m. this morning for their lights to come back on. 

On the other side of the Tri-Cities, 47 households had their electricity cut in a planned outage to service equipment near Miller Park. 

Power is expected to be restored by about 5:30 p.m. today.

Outage Map
The second outage was planned and will affect 47 customers until about 5:30 p.m. today. - BC Hydro