BPA seeks information on vandals.Byline: The Register-Guard The Bonneville Power Administration The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is a U.S. self-financed federal agency which transmits and sells wholesale electricity in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana. The BPA is part of the U.S. Department of Energy, and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. is offering a reward to help find vandals who shot out insulators on a high-voltage transmission line east of Springfield last Friday. The vandalism caused thousands of dollars worth of damage and lost revenues to the BPA BPA British Paediatric Association. , Eugene Water & Electric Board and Lane Electric Cooperative. BPA has posted a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. About 80 insulators were shot on BPA's Cougar-Thurston 115,000-volt transmission line, causing it to go out of service at 7:15 p.m. The vandalism occurred near Cougar cougar: see puma. cougar or puma or mountain lion or panther Species (Puma concolor) of large, graceful cat that lives in a wide variety of habitats in the Americas, from southern Alaska to Patagonia. Dam, about 40 miles east of Springfield, and repairs to the damaged line took 13 hours. BPA crews replaced the damaged insulators at an estimated cost of $6,000. Neither EWEB EWEB Eugene Water and Electric Board (Oregon) nor Lane Electric customers lost power, but one of EWEB's power generating units went offline at the Carmen Carmen throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190] See : Faithlessness Carmen the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr. hydroelectric plant on the McKenzie River For rivers name "Mackenzie", see . The McKenzie River is a tributary of the Willamette River, 86 miles (138 km) long, in northwestern Oregon in the United States. It drains part of the Cascade Range east of Eugene into the southernmost end of the Willamette Valley. above McKenzie Bridge. To make up for the lost power, EWEB bought about $5,000 worth of power on the open market, spokesman Lance Robertson said. Jeffrey Millennor, security specialist for BPA, said vandalism accounts for millions of dollars in damage to the Northwest power system each year, and the costs are passed on to ratepayers. Call BPA's Crime Witness program (800) 437-2744 with any information. The identity of informants is kept confidential. |
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