Navasota Area Gets Service Reliability Make-Over

04/01/2015

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Ronnie Hale

Motorists Urged to Drive Cautiously Work Areas

Navasota, Texas -- Contract workers for Entergy Texas, Inc. are taking their vegetation management expertise to Navasota where they will spend the next two months working to help ensure service reliability in the area.

Work is scheduled to get underway this week and, weather permitting, continue through May on a power line that originates at the Navasota Substation on Louise Street. The power line is 51 miles long and serves 854 customers.

The project boundaries include an area on the south side of Navasota in the Navasota Industrial Park, continuing south along FM1227 to the Pack 1 State Prison. The power line also serves customers west of Navasota along Highway 105 to the community of Old Washington. Specialized equipment, tractors, bucket trucks and mowing crews will be involved in the effort.

Those who travel in the area are asked to take note of work areas and drive with caution.

"All of our power lines, whether in densely populated cities or along rural county roads, are on a regular maintenance schedule," said Ronnie Hale, customer service representative for the area. "It's an example of how we invest in our system to reduce outages and help ensure a safe, reliable supply of power to our customers."

Entergy Texas invests about $7 million per year in its vegetation management program, trimming an average of 2,000 line miles annually.

Entergy Texas, Inc. provides electricity to more than 426,000 customers in 27 counties. It is a subsidiary of Entergy Corporation. Entergy is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, including nearly 10,000 megawatts of nuclear power, making it one of the nation's leading nuclear generators. Entergy delivers electricity to 2.8 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.

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