utilities

Just reading through city councillor Shad Quadri’s weekly newsletter. There’s a note about some recent power outages in Stittsville : _ My office has received inquiries from some residents in Stittsville who were experiencing power outages. Hydro Ottawa has investigated three recent outages affecting customers in Stittsville between July 4th and July 10th. ...

I’ve seen & heard a lot of complaints over the past few weeks about unwanted delivery of phone books. Sounds like a lot of you are either chucking it in the recycling bin right away, or it’s just gathering dust on the top shelf of the closet. ...

The next time a big storm rolls through the region, you can test out Hydro One’s Storm Centre . It’s a live, realtime map showing large planned and unplanned outages in Ontario, including Ottawa and the surrounding area. The site takes data from Hydro One and maps it onto a Bing interface. ...

** Reader Derek Hayes writes: " ** My neighbor and I somehow got on the topic of residential water pressure. He maintains that it is considered “high pressure” coming out of the tap. My take on it is that although it is indeed pressurized, it cannot be called “high pressure”. ...