A power pole on Alwyn Road in Lenah Valley is believed to be behind several repeat power outages that have been affecting the Valley and parts of Glenorchy for the last few weeks.
TasNetworks last night said they were ‘acutely aware’ of the outages, which would affect upwards of 2,000 customers at a time.
Residents noticed power would often ‘stop’ amid poor, wet weather – without known cause.
“We’ve had several crews in Lenah Valley yesterday and today, conducting more line controls and fitting fault detection devices to help us finally isolate and identify the elusive fault,” TasNetworks said in a statement on Tuesday night.
“In the past few minutes, we believe we’ve tracked the problem to a pole in Alwyn Road, just off Girrabong Road.”
Crews undertook repairs to high voltage infrastructure and resolved the issue late last night.
“Our Lenah Valley and Glenorchy customers will not experience outages as a result of this issue moving forward.”
The repeat outages have caused significant inconvenience to residents and businesses in the area and many have expressed their frustration with the ongoing issues.
