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Walton EMC to Upgrade Service in West Central Morgan County

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 12, 2005

Contact Greg Brooks, 770/266-2307, or Katie Woodall, 770/266-2572

MONROE, Ga.– Walton Electric Membership Corporation will upgrade electric service for a few hundred Morgan County customers on Monday, April 18 or Tuesday, April 19 beginning at approximately 9 a.m.

A power outage is scheduled to accommodate this work. No customer should be without power more than three hours, and in most cases the outage will be shorter. All customers included in the planned outage will receive information by door card and be affected only one of the two days.

Crews will raise the voltage of primary electric lines. During the operation, linemen will manually switch pole transformers to enable them to work at the higher voltage.

The upgrade will improve service, reliability and further decrease the likelihood of voltage drops and sags.   It will also allow for growth in electrical demand in the area.

Customers on and adjacent to these Morgan County roads are affected on April 18:   Clack Road, Thankful Road and Brobston Lane.

Customers on and adjacent to these roads are affected on April 19: Brownwood Road, McNair Lane, Clack Road, Monticello Highway, Confederate Road, Highway 278 and Dixie Highway.

Customers should schedule work requiring electrical power around this outage. Computer work should be completed and saved before the outage occurs. Residents with homes on wells may want to draw extra water for use during the outage. Those affected can call Walton EMC at 770/267-2505 if they have additional questions.

Walton EMC is a customer-owned electric company that serves 110,000 accounts in ten Northeast Georgia counties with approximately 3,200 of those in Morgan County.

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