15 and 16 knocked out thousands of customers in Pike County, including 3,700 in Delaware Township, 1,325 in Dingman Township, and 4,800 in Lehman Township. Crews had to check lines and isolate circuits to find the cause.Ī much smaller outage affecting eight Met-Ed customers in Dingmans Ferry happened at the same time.Ī windstorm that hit the area on Nov. The utility was at first unable to provide a restoration time because the cause of the outage was not obvious, such as downed trees on lines. Thank you for your patience while we worked to complete this difficult restoration.” (Monday), except for a localized area along Route 6 & 209, affecting one commercial building. Pike County Light & Power has turned the lights back on after an outage that affected Westfall, Milford Township, Milford Borough and Dingman Township, starting just after midnight early Monday morning.Ī PCL&P Facebook (/pikecountylightandpower) post stated: “All customers should be restored as of 4:20 p.m.
**Please do not remove these flags to prevent us from having to come back out to replace them.** Thank you for your kind cooperation during this very important system maintenance process.Īs always, if you have a gas emergency, think you smell gas, or suspect a gas leak, please call us anytime at 85, or 85 for an electric outage or emergency and we will continue to respond.Milford. This means that you may see them on your property marking out the service pipes by spray painting, or placing flags on unpaved areas, where the gas pipes are located in the ground below. You may see our gas technicians or gas contractors marking out the gas lines throughout Matamoras over the course of the next month. The drop box is checked every morning at 8:00 am and verbal confirmations of the payment can be requested via phone call after 2:00 pm the following business day.** There are payment envelopes provided for your convenience at the drop box. Due to COVID-19, PCLP is not accepting walk in customers and is only accepting walk in payments through the payment drop box located directly in front of our entrance at this time. **PLEASE NOTE, OUR WALK IN CENTER IS TEMPORARILY CLOSED DUE TO COVID-19. Call or email us today to see if we can serve you! The company is implementing expansion plans for both our gas and electric service in the area. We currently have over 100 miles of overhead electric distribution lines, 40 miles of underground electric distribution lines, and 19 miles of gas pipeline. PCLP also delivers natural gas to nearly 1,200 customers in Matamoras Borough and a small section of Westfall Township. PCLP itself became a subsidiary of Orange & Rockland and Con Edison before falling under ownership of Corning Natural Gas Holding Corporation (CNGHC) in 2016.Īs a subsidiary of CNGHC, PCLP delivers electricity to approximately 4,700 customers in Milford Borough, Milford Township, Westfall Township, Matamoras Borough, Millrift, Pond Eddy and a small northeast section of Dingman Township. Located in Northeastern Pike County, the company began to grow rapidly and merged with several other small gas and electric companies. Capital raised for the start-up was $5000. Each man became a director of the corporation and owned 2 shares valued at $50 each, except for David R.
Pike County Light & Power Company (PCLP or Pike) was officially incorporated as a subsidiary of Orange County Public Service Company of Port Jervis, NY on May 17th, 1910 by Thomas Watts of Middletown, NY, David H.