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Hurricane Irene Town Update - Wednesday Night

Hurricane Irene Town Update - Wednesday Night

In an effort to continue updating, our CL&P Liaison is continuing to help facilitate with the CL&P War Room our concerns and priorities.

CL&P was planning to re-energize the Route 1 area and Stonington Borough tonight but ran into two malfunctions to the transformers. An electrical engineer has been called in to fix this issue. This breakdown has pushed back the re-energizing to tomorrow (Thursday)

The Town obtained more bottles of water, bags of ice and prepared meal packets. I am personally delivering to residents tonight. Tomorrow you can pick up at  . Also, we continue to offer a power recharging area at the for residents who have medical items

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If you have any needs or questions the Human Services Building next to the High School is open for assistance. Also you can call our Emergency Operation Center at 860-599-7583 and 860-599-7584

Again the YMCA offering showers to residents at the Westerly, Mystic and Arcadia site.

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Town Hall will be OPEN Thursday, I am not sure what technology we will have but can register items manually.

Landfill is open. I have waived any fees for disposal of hurricane damage related items

The DECD through SECTER will be providing grants to help businesses obtain temporary assistance at www.DECD.org, or by calling 860-270-8215

DEP has come to Stonington and made an initial assessment of the coastline. An emergency declaration permit with the State is being affirmed. Coastline residents will have opportunity for submitting for assistance after this is completed

Finally, please call the Emergency Operation Center with any questions at 860-599-7583 and 860-599-7584 I look forward to continuing to keep residents updated about information by local media, and personally through my social media sites of Facebook, Twitter and blog.

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