Straight line winds broke the top out of a tree causing a power outage for approximately 500 customers on the North side of Gallatin Sunday night July 12. Storms that moved through the area Monday night 6/22/09, caused numerous outages. Approximately 2700 customers were without power immediately after the storm. Areas involved were: Red River Road, West Eastland, Blythe Street, North Water Avenue, North Boyers, Virginia, Joann Street, East Main, South Westland, Colesferry Road, Woodvale Drive, Katherine and Stanley Drive. Power was restored to the majority of customers by 11:00 p.m. Power was restored to the other customers by 3:00 a.m.
High winds cause scattered outages around the noon hour on Wednesday February 11. The largest outage was caused by a tree limb shorting the lines behind the Hospital which cause the circuit feeding the Hospital and the Hartsville Pike area to be out of service for approximately 15 minutes. The wind picked back up around 3:30 P M causing another round of scattered outages. All power was restored by 5:30 P M.
A dump truck with its bed raised hung the telephone cable and broke a pole in the Eagle Creek Subdivision off Red River Rd at 4:45 P M Thursday evening Jan 15, 2009. Th entire subdivision was with out power until approximately 8:30 P M until temporary repairs could be made to the broken pole.
At approximately 3:30 P M Wednesday, Jan 7, a tractor trailer truck hung some low Cable T V wires on E Main Street causing the electric wires to slap together and burn down. This caused an outage for a large area on the North Side of Gallatin. The problem was isolated and power restored to most of the area by about 4:15. The wires were repaired and power to the remaing customers restore by approximately 4:45 P M..
Thursday morning, January 1, 2009, a tractor trailor truck broke two poles on 109 Bypass near Hancock St. Crews isolated the broken pole and restored power at approximately 11:30 A M.
Thursday, Oct 16 at approximately 6:40 A M, a transformer off Northview Dr. failed causing an outage for several customers in the Northeast part of our service area. The problem was found and service restored by approxiamtely 7:10 A M.
A lighting arrestor malfunction on Peach Valley Road causing an outage of approxiamately 1 1/2 hours in the Lock 4/Peach Valley Road area around 11:30 P M on 10/1/08.
An afternoon rain and wind storm caused scattered outages on Wednesday July 30. Approximately 60 customers experienced lose of power with forty of those living on Aqua Drive. Some areas of the system experience high winds and up to 1 1/2 inches of rain while other areas remained calm and received no rain.
All power was restored by approximately 6:45 P M.A TVA wire on a switch open circuit around 9 AM Tuesday (7/2/08) causing partial power and then a complete outage to the Gallatin Electric West Substation. The station was deenergized, TVA supplied power from a different source and the power to the Substation was restored. Approximately 1000 customers were affected for approximately 45 minutes.
Early Sunday morning (June 29) a squirrel caused an outage for approximately 600 customers in the Coles Ferry Rd/Woodvale area. Most of the time a squirrel or bird will only cause a momentary blink of the power, but this squirrel remained in contact with the power line and ground resulting in the back up isolating device cutting power to the area until the squirrel could be found and removed.
Friday morning (March7) a tree top blew out and landed on the electric lines on Big Station Creek Road. This caused an outage to Big Station Creek Rd and the western end of Nashville Pike for approximately one hour.
Monday night (January 7) about 6:15 P. M. a pole was broken into on Douglas Bend Road by a car accident. The electrical outage was confined to the area around Foxland Market. The pole was replaced and power restored around Midnight. The previous Saturday morning around 1:30 A. M., a hit and run driver broke a pole on Morrison St. near the VFW hall. Power outages was limited to the immidiate area. That pole was replace and power restore by approximately 7 A. M..
Monday, December 10 at 4:05 P M: A traffic accident on Nashville Pike in the 2000 block broke a pole and caused the power to be off for approximately 800 customers for about 40 minutes. Gallatin Electric crews isolated the area and replaced the broken pole. The remaining customers, mostly Stone Ridge Apts, were off an additional 6 hours.
Lightning burned down two primary wires near Station Camp Creek High School Wednesday, 11/14/07, afternoon causing approximately 800 customers to be without power for about 30 minutes. The problem was isolated and the school regained power in an additional hour. There were also scattered outages caused by the lightning and high winds.
During the rain and wind on Oct 22 around 7:15 P. M., a wire burned down on Locust Street causing 700 customers to be without electricity for approximately one hour. Crews isolated the area and made the repair.
High winds caused scattered outages in the early morning hours of Oct 19th. Approx 25 customers were without power from 1 to 4 hours until crews could locate and repair the damage caused by the winds.
Tuesday Morning, Oct 9, at 3:20 A M, a raccoon climbed onto a 12,000 volt breaker in the Woodsferry Rd Substation. The short circuit he caused resulted in an outage of approximately 40 minutes for around 8000 customers of Gallatin Department of Electricity and some customers of Cumberland Electric Membership Corp.
Saturday, Aug25, around 1:30 P M one of the underground cables in the Last Plantation was dug into causing outages in the area until Gallatin Crews isolated the damaged cable and restored power. At approximately the same time, a truck hung cables beside the Hospital and broke the pole between the hospital and the Executive House Apts. That caused an outage to the Hartsville Pike area until the broken pole and attached wires could be cleared and power restored to all of the area. The Hospital remained off while crews replaced the pole and restrung the wires.
Friday night, Aug 24, at 9 P M high winds and lightning came through parts of Gallatin. A 70 foot pole carring a 69000 volt line was broken either by the winds or a police report said it was hit by lightning. That section of line was isolated by Gallatin Electric Crews and power restored in approimately 1 hour.
At approximately 7 P M on Wednesday, Aug 8, the TVA metering equipment in the Substation on Woods Ferry Rd failed. This caused an outage for approx 8000 customers of Gallatin Dept of Electricity as well as several customers of CEMC. About 7000 of Gallatins customers were off for about 1 hour with the remainder back on in an additional 45 minutes. We isolated TVA's damaged equipment, then made the repairs. The failure was not directly related to the extreme heat we are currently experiencing. The equipment that failed does no carry or supply the electrical load, only measures useage A 10 minute outage occurred this Morning, June 25, in the Woodvale/Coles Ferry Rd areas when a squirrel shorted an electronic recloser that protects that area..
Approximately 3:30 Sunday June 24, high winds downed a tree on Lock 4 road causing an electical outage for 150 customers. The electical short caused failure of some electrical connections requiring rerouting the normal feed to the area. There was a 5 minute interruption of power in the 109S area in order to make that change.
At approximately 8:30 A M, Sunday morning, May 11, a squirrel got atop an electronic device on 31E and cause an outage for approximately one hour for 850 customers.
Friday, March 2, a house cat climbed into the substaion structure off Jones Street. The cat shorted the primary buss work which caused failure of several insulators. The outage lasted approximately 2 hours while crews found the problem and made the repairs. Approximately 9000 customers were without electric service during this outage.
A private tree trimmer cut a tree down into the power lines near the Water Plant on 109s Thursday afternnoon Feburary 15. Power was lost to the south end of Gallatin for approximately 20 minutes until our crews could check the damage and restore power.
Approximately 1 A M Friday morning, January 26, a pickup truck hit a pole at Drivers Lane and Woodvale Drive. The accident broke the pole off at the top of the ground. Most power was restored in approximately 35 minutes. Crews worked throughout the night to replace the pole. Homes near the accident were without power until a little after 8 A M.
