{"id":21908,"date":"2025-06-10T14:19:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T20:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/power-restored-monday-evening-after-emergency-shutdown-of-cortez-substation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:10:24","slug":"power-restored-monday-evening-after-emergency-shutdown-of-cortez-substation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/power-restored-monday-evening-after-emergency-shutdown-of-cortez-substation\/","title":{"rendered":"Power restored Monday evening after emergency shutdown of Cortez substation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=75bcbc3c-54f8-5220-8bd0-3f2502597f82&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"556\" height=\"554\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Power to Empire Electric\u2019s Cortez substation was restored on Monday evening around 6:55 p.m. following an emergency shutdown of the station earlier that day.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Empire Electric Association via a post on Facebook, the substation was shut down due to arcing in a switch. Impacted areas were the west side of Cortez, as well of some areas north and south of the town.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated time of repair at the time of the shut down, around 3:40 p.m., was 7 p.m. During the shutdown, the EEA office was closed, as the substation also powers the EEA office.<\/p>\n<p>Around 3:42 p.m. the Cortez Police Department issued a statement via Crime Watch, informing the public that some traffic lights may not be functional during the outage.<\/p>\n<p>At 4:25 p.m., EEA shared that two of the circuits had power restored, but that they were still working on restoring power to the remaining circuits.<\/p>\n<p>By 6:55 p.m., power was fully restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>shutdown took place Monday afternoon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,21,227,28,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-21908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-community","tag-cortez","tag-empire-electric-assoc","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77506,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21908\/revisions\/77506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21908"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=21908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}