CL&P Crews Currently at Work All Over Farmington

[Update Thursday 2:45 p.m.] Only 45 customers in Farmington are still without power according to the CL&P outage map. 

Original story: CL&P currently has crews working all over town to restore the last 183 customers without power after Hurricane Sandy. Town officials have continuously pressed the utility to provide a quick response and the crews that have served Farmington have been extraordinarily hardworking, said Town Council Chairman Jeff Hogan.

“We have six crews on New Britain Avenue and we have crews on Paul Spring Road and also on Route 10,” Hogan said Thursday afternoon.

“We really are getting an activated response to our priorities. We’ve gotten upset people but they really are responding with the resources they are capable of mustering,” Hogan said.

At one point, Farmington saw more than 2,000 customers without power and the number dropped to more than 1,000 a day later. Two days after the storm, Farmington is down to just 1 percent of customers without power.

“We know they are in town and we have our town staff out there monitoring and managing aggressively,” he said.

Social services Director Nancy Parent is also out checking on seniors who might be shut in to ensure they have what they need.