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For the week of January 2 - 8, 2002

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Cox cable repair could cost $100,000


By TRAVIS PURSER
Express Staff Writer

Cable Internet and television service was restored Dec. 23 in much of the Wood River Valley after a dump truck accidentally cut a cable in Ketchum and knocked out service for more than two days.

Four technicians for Cox Communications worked around the clock from the morning of Friday, Dec. 21, until 1 p.m. the following Sunday to restore service to customers from East Fork Road south to Bellevue, Susan Littlefield, Cox’s officer manager said. Some customers in Ketchum and Elkhorn were also affected.

Cox will offer credits to the hundreds of residential and commercial customers whose service was interrupted, Littlefield said. That lost revenue would be added to the $50,000 to $100,000 Littlefield estimated the accident would cost by the time permanent repairs to the downed cable are completed in the spring.

A special crew will have to travel from Texas to Ketchum in the Spring to permanently replace the cable with its hundreds of hair-like fibers, which were individually spliced back together in a temporary repair over the weekend, Littlefield said.

Cox plans to bill KD Excavation for the work. The excavation company owns the truck responsible for the damage, Kim Bryson, the company’s office manager said.

"I hope they’ve got good insurance, because I can’t use a back-hoe," Littlefield said.

"Yeah, we have insurance to cover it," Craig Christenson, a project manager for KD Excavation said.

The problem began at 6:45 a.m. Dec.21 when one of the company’s dump trucks drove along Ketchum’s Fifth Street with its bed still up and cut the overhead cable, Bryson said.

 


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