On Thursday at 8:13AM we lost power to the Mt Harris wireless site.  This site is used by EONI to provide service to our wireless customers in Elgin.  EONI has installed expanded battery systems at this site due to previous problems with extended power outages and the difficulty of accessing this mountain top site in winter weather.

This Mt Harris site also serves several major commercial radio companies as well.  Oregon Trail Electric said they reset the breaker Thursday, however this problem of the power outage continues.   Oregon Trail Electric has notified a radio station they plan to have a snow cat trip to inspect the power system this morning.  They estimated they would begin the trip about 10:30AM. 

EONI wireless service to Elgin is still in service due to the battery system we have in place.  EONI has the ability to monitor the utility and battery status remotely and our systems.  Our systems report the batteries may run out about 3PM today.  We may get more or less time from our batteries.  As soon as stable utility power is present our systems will switch back to utility power and begin the slow process (2-3 days) of recharging the series of batteries.

Hopefully Elgin wireless customer will see no outage and the utility power will be restored before our batteries are exhausted.