Monday, October 15, 2007 By Ferdie de la TorreReporter (ST)
It was a weekend of outages on Saipan. The Commonwealth Utilities Corp. said the cause was fuel injection system in the power engines.As of 8:30pm yesterday, CUC spokesperson Pamela Mathis told Saipan Tribune that the utility agency's executive director Anthony Guerrero ordered that the alien workers employed by a contractor be called in for emergency because the problem got worse.Mathis said the fuel injection problem has escalated to a bigger turbo charger problem.“The problem is that the employees that have been working on the two units have been at it since early today (Sunday) and really can't do anymore,” she said.The problem, Mathis, said, triggered more outages “this evening” (Sunday night) in Capital Hill, Kagman and the northern part of the island.On Sept. 30, 2007, more than 20 non-resident workers plus six engineers stopped working at CUC as no bill has been signed allowing CUC to keep employing alien workers.Yesterday the outage started at 10:30am in China Town, Miha, and the Duty Free Shoppers area. At 1pm the power was back.Mathis said from 11:42am to 1pm the outage occurred in Fina Sisu, As Lito, San Antonio, Chalan Kanoa, and Chalan Piao.At 4pm, CUC tripped a part of Kiya 4 grid or the Beach Road and Chalan Kanoa areas. The outage lasted an hour.The second partial of Feeder 2 or the Garapan Beach Road from Tony Roma's to San Jose was also taken off.As of 6pm, Mathis said the mechanics were almost done with the repair.“They took turns (outages) so that nobody has to suffer for a too long of a period,” she said.On Saturday, two different set of outages occurred.A 30-minute outage started at 12 noon in Capital Hill, Kagman, Marpi, As Matuis, and Tanapag.At 6pm, the same areas-Marpi, As Matuis, and Tanapag had outage along with Garapan area.Power was back in Garapan at 6:30pm while the other areas from 7pm to 8:30pm.
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