COUNTY News:

Standby electric linemen from the Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities (DPU) have  restored power that that affected about 585 customers this evening on Barranca.

The outage was caused by an underground fault on Los Pueblos. When the fault occurred, a breaker simultaneously malfunctioned, causing the outage to impact not only the Los Pueblos area, but the rest of Barranca Mesa.

DPU has crews on standby 24/7 for electric, natural gas and water disruptions.

In the event of a power outage, customers are asked to call 505.662.8333 during business hours or 505.662.8222 after hours during the first few minutes of the outage. Once those notifications have been received, DPU is able to determine the extent of the outage through a meter monitoring platform.