CL&P Bringing More Crews into Greenwich to Expedite Power Restoration

Town officials are reporting that CL&P will be bringing nine extra line crews into Greenwich at 3 p.m. today in an effort to expedite power restoration.

As of 10:30 a.m., there were about 6,303 CL&P customers in the Town of Greenwich without electrical service, down from 7,528 at 7:30 p.m., town officials said in a statement. There are 306,059 customers without power throughout the State, town officials said.

The nine additional line crews will join the 12 which have already been working around town since Monday morning. In addition CL&P has deployed 15 tree crews in town — that's in addition to crews from the town Department of Public Works, which are responsible for clearing debris from roadways and town owned facilities.

"There are 65 trees that currently need to be addressed throughout Town, down from 145 yesterday evening," town officials report. "The Town cannot address a tree if there are wires involved without Connecticut Light and Power’s assistance."

As of 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, the Town had identified 23 complete road blockages and seven partial road blockages. To access an updated list of road blockages, click here.

According to CL&P's Outage Map, which is reportedly updated every 15 minutes, there were 5,953 customers (or about 21 percent of customers) without power in town as of 2 p.m. That's about one third of the 17,000+ customers reported without power on Sunday night after Hurricane Irene passed through town.

Meanwhile CL&P has feature to its website that gives customers updated power restoration projections (click "My Outage Status;" registration required) so they can anticipate when their homes will be getting power back.