Customers in central Medicine Hat lose power for part of Thursday morning

By Medicine Hat News on September 20, 2019.

About 2,600 homes and businesses in central Medicine Hat were without power for 90 minutes Thursday morning after a pole fire caused by rain cut off service at about 6 a.m.

The outage affected the Southeast and Southwest Hill communities as well as Kensington and some parts of the light industrial area after damage to the “Kin Coulee feeder” line.

Power was restored in all areas at about 7:45 a.m., according to officials.

Dump award

Municipal efforts to divert paint, electronics, oil and other hazardous chemicals from being buried at the landfill earned recognition for the city at an industry conference earlier this month.

Disposal facilities at the Medicine Hat municipal landfill received the collection site award of excellence at the 2019 Alberta Coordinated Action for Recycling Enterprises conference held in Peace River on Sept. 5.

“Residents have also been enthusiastic participants in our residential recycling program, which also contributes to waste diversion from our landfill site,” said solid waste superintendent Shane Briggs.

Alberta Recycling states that since its creation in 1994, programs at 440 municipal and First Nations community landfills across Alberta have captured 120 million tires, 25 million litres of paint and 1.7 billion litres of used oil.

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