Electrical power out on BPA line

East side of Clallam County affected

More than 11,000 people are without electrical power in and around Sequim, Blyn and the Miller Peninsula.

The outage stems from a problem on the Bonneville Power Administration line, according to Nicole Clark, communications manager for the Clallam County Public Utility District, saying that a small explosion was heard from the Happy Valley substation.

PUD crews will reroute the electricity and expect to have power restored in an hour and a half, Clark said at about 8 p.m. Saturday.

The scattered outages seem to have begun at 7:25 p.m. Saturday, when more than 7,000 people lost power.

By 8 p.m., 11,128 people were without electricity, according to the PUD outage map.

The scattered outages are all west of the Clallam/Jefferson county line, with the majority east of Carlsborg.

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