The CGC Communicator Newsletter Web Posting

To: All Mt. Wilson and Mt. Harvard Electric Power Customers

From: Scott Lacy @ Southern California Edison - lacysr (at) sce.com

Date: Friday, August 18, 2006

Subject: Electric Power Upgrade to 16kV Completed


Hi All - Well, this should be my final update to you on this project.  We
completed our final customer cutovers from the old 4kV system to the new
16kV system at the top of the hill on August 3, and completed some other
minor switching and customer outages for circuitry re-arrangement
yesterday.  As far as I can tell, this completely finishes our electrical
work up there to upgrade our distribution system to provide on-going
reliable service to all of the transmitter (and observatory) facilities up
at Mt Wilson for (hopefully) another 30-40 years.  The mobile substation,
which Fox Broadcasting so generously let us park right below their
building, was removed from the area last Thursday, and the last remnants of
the old equipment was being shipped down the hill yesterday.  There's still
a bit of cleanup work that our contractor needs to do, but that should be
done within a couple more days.

I want to thank you all again for your patience and understanding over the
past 9 months or so, considering all of the various planned (and sometimes
not-so-planned) outages that we had to subject you to in order to finish
this project.  I hope that the short-term impacts of those are outweighed
by the long-term improvements in reliability and quality of service that
these new facilities should offer all of you.

We are still waiting on the final approval from the Forest Service for our
plan to rebuild and reinforce the 16kV line that comes up the 'front' side
of the mountain from the Altadena area.  We're still hoping to be able to
do some of that construction this year, but we're kind of running out of
time on that.  (Considering some of the environmental restrictions they
might place on us, if we don't get that work done by the end of this year,
we might have to wait until Sept '07 for another window of opportunity -
those spotted owls need to breed, you know!)  Regardless, when it does
happen, it should only impact those services on Mt Harvard - and we'll
certainly work will all of those folks to mitigate any impacts as much as
possible.  We don't anticipate any planned outages necessary for any of
the services at Mt Wilson proper to perform that work.

As before, if you have any other questions, please let me know.  Thanks
again.


  ______


To: Scott Lacy

From: Roger Yoakum, CE, KOCE-TV/DT

Date: Friday, August 18, 2006

Subject: Many Thanks!


I'm sure I speak for all of us broadcasters up at Mt. Wilson when
I say that we are VERY GRATEFUL to have this upgraded service!

Your notifications and scheduling of outages has been truly
professional.  OUTSTANDING!

Many Thanks!

Posted by Steve Blodgett
Earthsignals.com