Bluewater Power crews have been kept busy to start off the work week.
The utility responded to an outage at around 11:15 p.m. Monday after a vehicle hit a hydro pole, knocking out power to 1,988 customers in the Heritage Park, College Park and Green Haven Estates areas.
All but 20 customers in the Heritage Park area had their power restored within about an hour.
Screenshot from Bluewater Power outage map. July 7, 2026.
At around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, a dump truck made contact with primary overhead wires and brought down four hydro poles.
The incident knocked out power to over 2,500 customers in the Rapids Parkway, Wiltshire and Cathcart Boulevard area.
The utility said the majority of the customers have had their power restored, however, about 750 customers may be without power until around 4:30 p.m.
As of 3:30 p.m., all but two customers had their power restored.