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Oconto Electric
Cooperative P.O. Box 168 Oconto Falls, WI 54154-0168 (920) 846-2816 | (800) 472-8410 |
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| DATE | TIME | DURATION | Location | CAUSE |
| 5-1-08 | 9:30pm | 2 hours | townships of Oconto Falls, Spruce and Lena, north of the Oconto Falls Sub | A lightning strike took out the breakers in the Oconto Falls sub for the north feeder. |
| 5-1-08 | 3:00am | 3 3/4 hours | Froelick Rd, township of Pensaukee | Urd primary cable fault |
| 4-25 to 4-27 | fri evening to sunday evening | 1 to 2 hours | The southern part of Oconto Electric's territory, or more specifically Morgan, Little Suamico, Pensaukee and Abrams. | High winds toppled trees into power lines which resulted in 7 outages. |
| 4-20-08 | 2:02am | 3 1/2 hours | Nelligan Lake in northern Oconto County | A tree fell into the line. |
| 4-19-08 | 5:17an | 1 1/2 hours | Shay Lake, northern Oconto County | A tree fell into the line. |
| 4-15-08 | 4:24pm | 2 hours | OEC had a large outage affecting the CC line starting at the intersection of Lawler Rd and Belgian Rd in the town of Lena. | An insulator came loose, the wind blew it into the pole which started a fire on the pole. The pole needed to be replaced. |
| 4-8 to 4-11-08 | Late evening Tues to early morning Friday | most outages were restored in 1 to 2 hours | The northern part of our system was hardest hit by the winter storm. | Heavy wet snow and strong winds caused trees and branches to fall into our lines resulting in 14 outages affecting 241 members. |
| 4-1-2008 | In the month of March, OEC had 8 outages affecting 29 members. | It was a very quiet month for outages. |