Construction causes power outage at PitCo Health and Human Services

Construction causes power outage at PitCo Health and Human Services

Construction work hit a buried power line at 3 p.m. on Thursday that supplied grid and backup generator power to the Pitkin County Health and Human Services building, leading to necessary repairs that will last through the weekend and into next week.  Contractors were installing electric heat pumps outside the building when a bore hit a power line that connected the building to both the backup generator and the main grid. Because of the undergro…