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• Community members can test out climate-friendly e-bikes at E-Bike Expo on Saturday

  EWEB encourages Eugene residents to ride into summer on clean, accessible e-bikes, with a $300 e-bike rebate.

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• EWEB Hosts Dinner to Appreciate Customers of the McKenzie River Valley

  EWEB hosted a customer appreciation dinner at the Walterville Community Center on Thursday, May 23, in place of its yearly upriver Board meeting. The event allowed customers, EWEB Commissioners, and staff to share a meal and openly discuss topics most relevant to the McKenzie Valley community.

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• EWEB bids a fond farewell to College Hill Reservoir and prepares for modern drinking water storage tanks

  Several hundred Eugene residents came together on May 30 for a Farewell Celebration at EWEB’s College Hill Reservoir before demolition and construction to build modern drinking water storage tanks begins later this year.

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• EWEB invests in satellite-based forestry analytics for vegetation management

  EWEB maintains over 1,300 miles of overhead transmission and distribution lines. To aid crews in identifying hazardous vegetation growth in a sometimes heavily forested service territory, EWEB is utilizing a new satellite-based forestry analytics software called Overstory.

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• EWEB opens application for 2024 Electric Mobility Community Grants

  Grant awards of up to $30,000 to cover costs associated with electric mobility projects.

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• Upgrades to Eugene's downtown electric network continue

  You may have noticed construction this week on the corner of 7th and Pearl Street. That’s because crews replaced a corroded, aging vault with an innovative, new Voltek vault. The Voltek design allows for the new infrastructure to be built inside of the existing aging vault. We’re able to install the new vault while the cables are still energized, minimizing disruption to customers and traffic while cutting construction time in half.

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• The Big Freeze 2024: After Action Report

  Winter 2024 was one for the records books, and we'll look back on it for years to come and say, "That was a doozy!"  The back-to-back January Ice Storms caused widespread damage to EWEB’s service territory, affecting approximately 38,000 customers. Preliminary repair costs were over $8 million, and additional repairs to transmission lines are still required. 

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• Fixing the Unseen: Water Pipeline Replacement in Unincorporated Eugene

  Learn more about EWEB's methods for monitoring and replacing aged water pipelines.

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• Spring Cleaning? How about Spring Emergency Preparedness!

  Spring is officially here and that means the plants are blooming, the sun is (sometimes) shining, and the grass is green! We've had our fair share of severe weather already, but spring weather is notoriously unpredictable. While you're in the midst of spring cleaning and garden care, consider completing these emergency preparedness tasks.

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• EWEB General Manager Delivers 2024 State of the Utility

  General Manager Frank Lawson delivered his address at the March 5 public Board of Commissioners meeting

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• Nine days without power: My ice storm story as an EWEB customer and employee

  While beautiful and peaceful, buying a home on the edge of the forest and surrounded by trees has its tradeoffs. Moving “upriver,” I knew there would be more threats to prepare for, including Mother Nature’s seasonal surprises.

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• EWEB achieves power restoration milestone over the weekend

  Crews have so far restored power for 92% of customers who originally lost power at the height of the ice storm.

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• Reenergized McKenzie River Valley transmission lines allow EWEB crews to restore power upriver

  On Friday, a majority of EWEB crews tackled power restoration efforts upriver, after federally managed transmission lines were reenergized Thursday.

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• EWEB estimates one week to complete power system restoration

  On Wednesday, EWEB crews restored power for about 10,000 customers by repairing large equipment first.

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• Second round of ice and ensuing thaw prompt mass power outages

  On Wednesday, all EWEB crews, who have been working nonstop since Saturday, traversed EWEB’s service territory assessing the damage and restoring transmission lines and main power feeders.

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