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New Storm Poles Pass First Test


Saturday night, May 16th, a tornado came through west of Orienta. We had recently rebuilt the lines in this area in our 1249 mile strengthening and hardening project. This was one of the first test for our lines in a severe storm. Barns were blown down and damaged and some poles were snapped in the storm. One thing that was very encouraging was the fact that wooden poles were broken but the ductile iron poles were still standing. Four wood poles in


lost a round top barn and


Ron and Pamela Voth are standing in front of a destroyed barn.


The ductile iron pole (storm pole) is leaning but still standing!


between the iron poles were snapped at the ground. The iron poles are meant to stop the domino effect of poles snapping one after another. We are happy that these iron poles were still standing. We are encouraged that the losses to our system were reduced and the time to get power restored was im- proved because of the stronger, better system. Ron and Pamela Voth were in the cellar when the storm came through and they


Just A Reminder


Cimarron Electric has hired Progressive Solu- tions to spray right of way out of the Fairview and West Kingfisher substations. Below is the logo that will be on their equipment.


had others damaged. Ron said he was impressed that the iron poles were still standing. He recalled that this same line lost 6 miles of poles to the domino effect back in the big ice storm and they were without power for 13 days. “If this new line and poles can reduce damage, we are all for it,” said Ron. The tornado also tore up 3 structures from another utility’s transmission line and a barn at a pumping plant across the road from our lines.


1249 Mile Update Reed Emerson, Sr. V.P . of Engineering and


Operations, reports that the rain slowed things down this past month,especially when you are rebuilding line when it is hot!


“Herbicide spraying is the most cost effective way to control growth and reduce outages,” said Ron Pennington, Project Manager. “We are looking forward to working with Progres- sive Solutions and like the fact that they were named the National winner of the 2011 Envi- ronmental Respect Award in Vegetation Man- agement.” If you have any questions, please give me a call. Thank You. 405-375-4121


These linemen are untying the wires from the insulators on the pole, raising the hot wire and neutral on the insulated bucket for clear- ance. A digger truck removes the old pole and puts in a new one. A special arm is temporar- ily attached, to hold the hot wire until new bigger wire can be pulled onto the top of the new poles. Once completed, the new bigger wire is made hot, and the old wire removed.


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