Politics & Government

Summit Mayor Makes Emergency Call to JCP&L (Update: 6p.m.)

Ellen Dickson shares updates with the community ahead of another storm expected to hit the region.

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(Update 6p.m.): According to the latest post on Mayor Dickson's Facebook page, she concluded another call with the president of JCP&L about an hour ago. She said that the company will not be able to provide a street-by-street power restoration assessment. That level of detail from the utility is "not happening," she wrote. The president of the utility has told her that "all will have power back by Saturday." 

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Mayor Ellen Dickson made an "emergency call" in to Jersey Central Power & Light this morning, according to a status update on her Facebook page.

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"Please go to my website ellendickson for a new update," she shard with her over 1,300 Facebook followers. (You can follow her official mayor's Facebook account, here http://www.facebook.com/mayorellen.dickson ) 

She offered the following timeline, which appears on her website:

  • Today, November 7th: 11 customers;
  • Tomorrow, November 8th:  956 customers;
  • Friday, November 9th: 19 customers;
  • Saturday, November 10th: 393 customers.

 

Meanwhile, there are still over 2,000 residents without power in Summit, many going on their ninth day in the dark following Sandy's massive blow to the city.

One resident has even expressed her frustration with the delay by creating an online petition. The organizer, Amy Feng, has been encouraging residents to leave comments for statewide politicians like Gov. Chris Christie's Facebook page as well as local. "Send emails to Mayor Dickson edickson@cityofsummit.org and plea her to deliver the Petition for us," she writes. 

According to the petition, Feng is "dissatisfied with the power restoration process in our community and the communication regarding the same." The petition has close to 250 signatures so far.

Still, City officials and the Mayor seem to be doing all they can. "I have been making calls last night and this morning," Dickson continued in a recent Facebook post. "Congressman Lance is looking into getting more linesmen into the area. I have left messages with the Gov. and Lt. Gov.

I put in an emergency call to JCP&L . I have anecdotal evidence of crews on Passaic, Fernwood. The Police will give me a report at noon of where they have spotted crews."

Mayor Dickson continues to update the situation on her website.

The following is from the mayor's website ellendickson.com:

As of this hour, the JCP&L website reports 2,140 customers without power, or 23% of all Summit customers. Click here to find the info on their site.

Here are the restoration estimates made yesterday, November 6th, 2012 at noon by JCP&L:

  • Today, November 7th: 11 customers;
  • Tomorrow, November 8th:  956 customers;
  • Friday, November 9th: 19 customers;
  • Saturday, November 10th: 393 customers.

Total: 1,379 customers. This info was extracted from this download. According to this data, that would leave 761 still without power as of Saturday, or a bit over eight percent of customers.

There has been some discussion concerning neighboring towns having had power restored faster than Summit. Below please find data from the JCP&L site as of just a few minutes ago which shows comparative data from neighboring towns.

DescriptionSummitMillburn (JCP&L)SpringfieldChatham (township)New Providence Customers Affected 2,140 2,371 2,001 1,545 1,332 Customers Served 9,217 8,054 7,413 4,428 5,204 %Customers Affected 23% 29% 27% 35% 26%

 


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