Mason PUD News

Electricity was restored at 6:54 this evening to nearly 4,200 Mason County PUD No. 3 customers affected by an outage in south Mason County. The outage occurred due to a problem with a high voltage Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) line that feeds a PUD 3 substation.

A BPA line relay to the Skookum substation at Kamilche went out at about 5:45 PM and Bonneville crews were dispatched to restore service to the substation.

General areas affected by the outage included:

• Arcadia Road
• Arcadia Shores
• Bloomfield Road
• Cole Road
• Hurley Waldrip Road
• Hwy 101 North
• Hwy 108 from Kamilche to Grays Harbor County line
• Kamilche Point
• Lynch Road
• Mill Creek Road
• Old Olympic Hwy
• Portion of Hillcrest (City of Shelton)
• Taylortowne
• Totten Shores

Bonneville Power Administration personnel will be inspecting the high voltage power line in an attempt to determine the cause of the outage.