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Power supply issues in the Hauiti Drive area of Warkworth continue.
Residents found themselves without power for about a week earlier this month. This follows a major power surge in July, which damaged home appliances, water cylinders and electrical gear in the adjoining David Williams Place.
This time, it was a fault in an underground cable causing the problem.
A Vector spokesperson said crews were replacing around 180m of underground power cable, which would improve the reliability of power supply to the area.
Temporary power generation was supplied to the affected households and barriers were placed around the generators to minimise the noise.
However, Vector did not respond to the paper’s queries about whether Hauiti Drive residents might expect further outages and why these supply issues kept recurring.
One resident said he was fed-up with the “patch-up” jobs that Vector had been doing.
However, he said that after talking to the contractors, he felt a lot more confident that the job was being done properly this time.
