- Date
- 1982-12-13
- Kind
- Accident
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- infrastructureemergency-managementcommunicationcommunitymaritime
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
On December 13, 1982, a reported underwater cable failure left Beaver Island without normal power and operating on emergency generators. The Beacon urged residents to conserve energy while repairs were deferred until spring.
Evidence limits
This is a community account, not an engineering, utility, vessel, or outage log.
Sources
- Reports a 5:45 p.m. December 13 blackout, emergency generators, requests to conserve energy, and the reported severe damage to the underwater cable between Beaver Island and Cross Village, supposedly by a tug searching for a lost tow. It says repairs were deferred until spring and a backup generator was being sought. This is a community account, not an engineering, utility, vessel, or outage log. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1982-12_Beaver-Beacon
- The held fifteen-page December issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the power-failure report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1982-12_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Underwater power cable failure leaves Beaver Island on emergency generators, 1982”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-power-cable-failure-december-13-1982/, accessed [date], citing “Power Failure Hits Beaver Island,” by Jacque LaFreniere, Beaver Beacon, December 1982. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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