Northern Schuylkill County Service Electric Customers Should Expect Service Disruption on Wednesday - Skook News
Northern Schuylkill County Service Electric Customers Should Expect Service Disruption on Wednesday
Service Electric customers in several northern Schuylkill County communities are set to experience a temporary disruption in their Internet, television, and home phone services on Wednesday, July 19th, starting at 6 a.m.
The emergency outage has been scheduled to facilitate permanent repairs to the fiber optic network, which sustained damage on July 14th, 2023.
The communication service provider has assured residents that services will gradually return to affected areas as individual fibers are spliced together.
The areas that will be impacted by the outage include Ashland, Beurys Lake, Fountain Springs, Frackville, Gilberton, Girardville, Gordon, Helfenstein, Hegins, Lavelle, Locustdale, Mahanoy Plane, Saint Clair, Taylorsville, and Weishample.
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