Category: Business News

BULLHEAD CITY, AZ – Throughout the weekend, Friday, August 18 – Saturday, August 19 twenty-six separate outages in Mohave Electric Cooperative’s (MEC’S) service area affected over 4,800 MEC members. The majority of the outages were due to lightning striking lines, transformers, and other electrical equipment. MEC crews worked tirelessly throughout the night restoring power to all members by Saturday, August 19 at 1:57 p.m. The largest outage occurred at 5:49 p.m. on Friday in the Western service area for 1,949 members when winds from the extreme storm tore down a line, causing the circuit to lock open at the Big Bend Substation….

Due to recent rain storms and in anticipation of additional storms in southern California and Arizona, the Bureau of Reclamation is reducing water releases from Davis and Parker dams on the lower Colorado River. The reduced releases at both dams is expected to continue possibly through Wednesday, Aug. 23. At Parker Dam, north of Parker, Arizona, hourly releases have been reduced to approximately 1,800 cubic feet per second (cfs). Hourly releases at Davis Dam, north of Laughlin, Nevada, will be reduced to approximately 2,300 cfs beginning tonight at 11 p.m. MST and may fluctuate between 2,300 cfs and 3,900 cfs…

Due to recent rain storms and in anticipation of additional storms in southern California and Arizona, the Bureau of Reclamation is reducing water releases from Davis and Parker dams on the lower Colorado River. The reduced releases at both dams is expected to continue possibly through Wednesday, Aug. 23. At Parker Dam, north of Parker, Arizona, hourly releases have been reduced to approximately 1,800 cubic feet per second (cfs). Hourly releases at Davis Dam, north of Laughlin, Nevada, will be reduced to approximately 2,300 cfs beginning tonight at 11 p.m. MST and may fluctuate between 2,300 cfs and 3,900 cfs…