The Post and Courier
CHARLESTON — Growing pains on Johns Island have long included traffic woes and infrastructure strain — and now an unusual wave of power outages.
Berkeley Electric Cooperative, which provides power for many residents of the area, said an “abnormal” number of outages have affected neighborhoods throughout the summer and fall with recent events occurring Oct. 7 and Oct. 9.
A review of the past six months of Johns Island outage activity in the River Road area from Main to Maybank roads found 75 outages, each affecting an average of 245 meters.
The average outage lasted 1 hour, 39 minutes, according to Libby Roerig, director of marketing and communications for the utility.
The cause of most of these outages — 73 percent — are related to construction in the area.
“It’s an abnormal cluste