Officials with Harlan Municipal Utilities (HMU) report an equipment failure at around 9:30-a.m. Sunday, resulted in an electrical outage to parts of the community. HMU CEO Ken Weber said a middle phase jumper on a junction pole along the 69Kv (kilovolt) main line feeding Harlan, failed and dropped into the lower phase line causing a partial power outage. HMU linemen and a crew from Northern Iowa Power Company (NIPCO) were able to affect a temporary workaround to restore power.

Weber said today (Monday), that they are working with line crews from NIPCO to repair the jumper. During the repair, they hope to determine the cause of the failure and fix it so it doesn’t happen again. Power was restored to all customers by around 11:45-a.m., Sunday. The partial power condition damaged some electronic equipment on the HMU telecom service. Telecom technicians worked until early Sunday evening to replace, repair and restore cable TV, Internet and Telephone Services.