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560 Alliant customers without electricity in Cedar Rapids after power pole damaged by backhoe
CEDAR RAPIDS — Update: According to the Alliant website, most customers have had their energy restored.
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A few hundred Alliant Energy customers will be without power Friday evening — some for a few hours — after a power line was damaged by a backhoe.
Alliant spokesman Mike Wagner said a backhoe struck a power line — which caused a nearby power pole to fall over — a little after 5 p.m. Friday near 12th Avenue and Ninth Street SW, causing a power outage for 560 customers in the area.
Wagner said Alliant crews are working to restore power to customers, but some might be without power for a few hours or so.
(FILE PHOTO)An Alliant Energy's worker puts traffic cones back to his truck during a power upgrade work at the 1100 block of Hawkeye Drive in Hiawatha on Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. (Justin Wan/The Gazette)
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