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In the aftermath of the tornado that tore through Nepean last month, Hydro One and Ottawa Hydro will need to temporarily shut off power to approximately 50,000 customers while it works to restore the Merivale Transmission Station.

Crews have been working nearly non-stop on the station, which was particularly hard hit by the tornado, to bring the various components back online and restore power, and reliability, to customers across the city. According to Hydro One, more work is needed to improve redundancy and resiliency at the station, which will require a short power outage on Sunday morning between 4 a.m. and 4:30 a.m.

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The outage will affect 2,027 Hydro One customers and 48,000 Hydro Ottawa customers.

Customers will be affected in pockets as far away as Cornwall. Affected areas include Manotick, Marlborough, North Gower, Osgoode, Bay, College, Kitchissippi, Somerset, River, Knoxdale-Merivale, Barrhaven, Gloucester-South Nepean and Rideau-Goulbourn.

Affected customers will be contacted by their service provider via auto-dialer. Hydro One and Hydro Ottawa warned that a second outage will be required in the coming weeks. Work at the station will continue for several months in order to fully restore it to its original capabilities.