SEAN BOSTON
Hutch Post
HAVEN, Kan. — City of Haven Public Works Director Steve Carmichael provided citizens with some positive news regarding recent power issues at the City Council meeting on Tuesday at Haven City Hall.
Community members have voiced their opinions on social media throughout the past several weeks after several brownouts and/or blackouts following any storms or high winds.
"We've been working really hard on the power issue for the last two weeks. I had Tim Goldson come in and help. He is the utilities director for the City of Kingman. He volunteered his time to come up and walk our system, drive our system, and he did it twice. He found some tiny little things in the city, nothing that was causing the blinks. He brought one of his line crews up on the last day and they went through and changed out some insulators and just took care of some small things."
Carmichael is pleased with how things turned out with the help of Evergy.
"Initially we thought it was a lightning strike, but after talking with Evergy when they came out and fixed it and stuff, we think maybe our gremlin up ahead finally exploded, so it's all been replaced," Carmichael said. "Other problems that we found on Evergy's line when we drove it, that we've been hounding Evergy about, they came out and fixed that."
Carmichael is hopeful the problem has been fixed and won't need to be addressed in the future.
"Let's cross our fingers that that was what the blinking was," Carmichael said. "The blink is literally a needle in a haystack to try and find, until something majorly goes bad. The problem was we looked in our haystack and they looked in their haystack, and we're still just looking for that needle in a haystack that I think we may have got some ground covered on that. I assure you that it wasn't due to a lack of effort. We'll continue to cross our fingers and hope."