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Outage caused by farm equipment
Nearly 1,200 Federated Rural Electric members were without power for about an hour Saturday afternoon when farm tillage equipment broke a transmission pole in Sioux Valley Township.
A full 1,176 members, along with the entire city of Round Lake, were without power from shortly before 3:30 p.m. Saturday to around 4:30 p.m. The outage affected four Federated substations, including Miloma, West Lakefield, Round Lake and Minneota.
Federated crews found the problem and re-routed power on the Great River Energy transmission lines. The Miloma, West Lakefield and Round Lake substations were re-energized at 4:22 p.m., followed by the Minneota substation at 4:40 p.m.
This is the fourth farming outage in a week.
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