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I am writing again regarding the outage of street lights on Fieldstone Drive and Citation Avenue as indicated in my initial report in April 2014! Also, the streets surrounding Rustic and Sunset should be paved by now. There should be no street parking toward the curve on Rustic Road as that area of the street is an accident waiting to happen especially now with school in session! The light situation is a disgrace!
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Deb (Guest)
Acknowledged Stoneham DPW 2 (Registered User)
Stoneham DPW 2 (Registered User)
lawler family (Registered User)
An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Registered User)
Stoneham DPW 2 (Registered User)
Similar to the Town’s responsibility to provide services to the customer’s property, NStar must ensure they are supplying electricity to the Town right of way. Our electrical contractor has determined there is no power at the base of this, and many other, lightpole bases. The Department has been requesting an inspection of the padmount transformers (large green boxes) that provide electricity to these lights. In the past, especially with overhead wires, a corroded connection has been the problem. A corroded connection at the point where electricity is fed to the Town is the responsibility of NStar. It would be a disservice to the residents of the Town to order underground repairs in the tens of thousands of dollars without knowing 100% that the problem isn’t the responsibility of NStar to fix.
Residents in the Skyewood, Dapper Darby, Laurie area have be seeing their street lights back in service after NStar ran the necessary underground wire and recently activated it. The Department will continue to press for a proper investigation of this street light as well as the ones on Fieldstone, Citation, Mayflower and other areas who have been patiently waiting.
Closed Stoneham DPW 2 (Registered User)
As you may be aware the Department of Public Works has been dealing with outages in the Citation Ave area and was attempting to have NStar rectify the situation since April of 2014. Instead of ordering repairs, the Department fought for the residents by making repeated phone calls, sending numerous e-mails and holding a few meetings. In the end persistence paid off and NStar made their repairs.
The lights in the Citation Ave area are now operational again at NO COST to the Town. If the Department ordered the repairs (conduit, cable, and asphalt repairs) the cost would have been roughly $45,000 and the lights wouldn’t have been operational as the problem was not the cable or the light fixtures but with NStar.
Corrective action is still being pursued in other areas such as Fieldstone Drive and Pebble Place.
Reopened An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Registered User)
Stoneham DPW 2 (Registered User)
Closed Stoneham DPW 2 (Registered User)
This post, as noted in the original comment and the previous post, is a duplicate. The open Issue ID is 1049681.
As previously stated:
As you may be aware the Department of Public Works has been dealing with outages in the Citation Ave area and was attempting to have NStar rectify the situation since April of 2014. Instead of ordering repairs, the Department fought for the residents by making repeated phone calls, sending numerous e-mails and holding a few meetings. In the end persistence paid off and NStar made their repairs.
The lights in the Citation Ave area are now operational again at NO COST to the Town. If the Department ordered the repairs (conduit, cable, and asphalt repairs) the cost would have been roughly $45,000 and the lights wouldn’t have been operational as the problem was not the cable or the light fixtures but with NStar.
Corrective action is still being pursued in other areas such as Fieldstone Drive and Pebble Place.