Minor power outages in the Heathwood Subdivision

Our office has been made aware of several power short outages (or "flashoevers") in the Heathwood subdivision of the ward (between Birchmount and Kennedy, Steeles and McNicoll). Our office has contacted Toronto Hydro who are working actively to solve the issues. Below is an excerpt of Toronto Hydro's communication to our office, updating us on the issues at hand and the solutions they are providing:

The main issue is with a feeder. In the past it has been underground cable failures.

Late on December 21st (shortly after the outage at 11:30 PM reported by the Heathwood Community customer), a forced outage occurred that was found due to a severely burnt conductor lead, which has since been repaired. This may explain the multiple momentary outages that have occurred recently.

Our System Reliability staff will continue to monitor for further outages, and is pro-actively inspecting pad mounted switches to determine if flash-overs from those devices may also have contributed to these outages.

Our response staff believe they have found the problem equipment and will be ice blasting it on the 29th. To replace the equipment will take 4 to 8 hours to complete. Due to the cold weather the plan is to do this work next week. In the interim, staff are putting together a list of customers that will be effected with this planned outage repair work. When a firm date has been determined, notices will be couriered to these customers.

Community Clean-up Day

Community Clean-up Day was a great success this year. Concerned citizens of all ages from all over the ward came to pitch in on Saturday, April 24th, to make their community a better place to live.

Our office would like to extend a warm thank you to all the groups that helped out, including the Heathwood Ratepayers Association, the Bridletowne Park Church, the 5th & 13th Agincourt Scout Group, and Action for Neighbourhood Change Toronto

Heathwood area graffiti cleanup

The Heathwood Ratepayers Association has organized an ambitious graffiti cleanup project, and over a dozen volunteers helped do their part, including the Councillor and his staff. The back yard fences of homes facing Kennedy from Passmore up to Steeles were completely repainted, and currently look beautiful.