Edgartown instituted an all-night parking ban along a portion of Main Street that began at 6 pm Wednesday to allow the replacement of an electrical cable. The work was expected to be completed by Thursday morning.
Selectmen Tuesday approved the parking ban request from wastewater plant chief operator David Thompson. The ban extended from Main Street by the town hall down to Dock Street, and partially onto South Summer Street, so that crews could access electrical manholes necessary to make repairs to the cables that power a town wastewater pumping station.
A travel lane was left on the left side of the road, where there are normally parking spots.
“We’re going to need to have a truck and a winch and some spools of electrical cable,” Mr. Thompson told selectmen.
The electrical work is to fix a power problem following a lightning storm that disrupted the flow of electricity to a sewage-pumping station, which switched to generator power. But, the generator did not power the station, Mr. Thompson said.
“What happened to it never should have happened. There’s no good explanation for it. The bolts that hold the linkage between the engine and the generator, one of them let go,” Mr. Thompson said.
Mr. Thompson underscored that the electrical failure was an unpredictable, freak accident. He said he hoped the work would be done in one night.
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