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Lake Placid bids out substation circuit bypass project

LAKE PLACID — The village Board of Trustees approved to go out to bid on two contracts pertaining to its substation circuit bypass project at Monday night’s board meeting.

One contract regards an electrical relay panel and the other circuit breakers and insulator switches. One more contract, which deals with the housing for all this equipment, will go out to bid at a later date.

The bypass project was approved this summer. Here’s is how it works: there are two substations that control the flow of municipal hydroelectric power into the village. The one in question is behind the firehouse on Old Military Road. Even if electricity is being pumped into that substation, if it breaks down, then the village will have a power outage.

The new project would put breakers and switches in the substation so that electricity can bypass it and go to the other substation thus avoiding a outage.

The switches will handle internal outage problems only. So if a substation in Ray Brook that feeds into the village breaks down, there would still be an outage in Lake Placid.

Trustee Peter Holderied said the substation behind the firehouse has been an issue for decades.

The project is expected to cost $2.3 million, which will be bonded and paid for over the next 20 years through public funds. Village Mayor Craig Randall said the cost will be minuscule for the rate payer.

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