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The first stage of power restoration is complete in American Samoa, which lost one
of its two power plants and half its electricity in the tsunami disaster on Sept. 29, 2009.
Donald Schlack The electricity situation here in American
Samoa has improved greatly in the past week
since we added more generators and transformers.
It took almost all day in Fagatogo. First, we
had to disconnect the generator from an
existing small transformer, mover the
generator, bring in another 15-ton generator
and connect both of them to a large transformer.
At Pago East, we assembled high voltage
wires, raised them and connected them to the
top of a power pole and then installed a larger transformer to feed them from below.
Now, a week later, there are no more rolling blackouts in Pago Pago.
Power restoration is a combined effort of the following:
American Samoa Power Authority (ASPA)
FEMA
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Bravo Company 249th Engineer Battalion
(Prime Power) Ft. Bragg, North Carolina
General Services Administration
Mutual aid utility crews from
Kauai Island, Hawaii and Eugene, Oregon
Replacement of the damaged power plant in a
safer location is expected to take two years.
For more information go to www.fema.gov
or www.americansamoa.gov