Manitoba Hydro is starting work in the Narrows.
Bruce Owen, media relations officer with Manitoba Hydro, says it’s one of their transmission lines.
“We lost it during the October storm, what happened is that area, and it’s just in the immediate vicinity of Ebb and Flow Lake. We lost about six kilometres of the line, just because of the severity of the storm and the wind.”
The reason it hadn’t been repaired yet is that it’s a backup line, they also needed the winter season for the lake to be frozen over to have access to the area.
Owen says it would be bad if the working line were to be knocked from a storm.
“This is why we’re working as quickly as we can to get this lineup. We’re confident that what we have fixed to date, and that’s so people in all the areas have electricity, we’re confident that we’re okay but we’re not 100 per cent.”
Those in the area over the next few weeks may hear some loud "bangs" like fireworks, but it's the workers. They use implosion sleeves to make a permanent, high-quality connection between two ends of power line by fusing them together.
