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Milford. Pike County Light & Power has turned the lights back on after an outage that affected Westfall, Milford Township, Milford Borough and Dingman Township, starting just after midnight early Monday morning.
A PCL&P Facebook (facebook.com/pikecountylightandpower) post stated: “All customers should be restored as of 4:20 p.m. (Monday), except for a localized area along Route 6 & 209, affecting one commercial building. Thank you for your patience while we worked to complete this difficult restoration.”
The utility was at first unable to provide a restoration time because the cause of the outage was not obvious, such as downed trees on lines. Crews had to check lines and isolate circuits to find the cause.
A much smaller outage affecting eight Met-Ed customers in Dingmans Ferry happened at the same time.
A windstorm that hit the area on Nov. 15 and 16 knocked out thousands of customers in Pike County, including 3,700 in Delaware Township, 1,325 in Dingman Township, and 4,800 in Lehman Township. “The cause of most of these outages were off-right-of-way trees falling into one of our main power lines running from Bushkill Falls to Birchwood Lake,” said Todd Meyers of Met-Ed. “The majority of those customer were restored within 24 hours, many sooner.”