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Ameren Illinois: 1-800-755-5000

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Certain repairs must be completed before service can be safely restored.

Residents who need to repair customer-owned facilities, such as the meter base, weatherhead or point of attachment, should have this work performed by a professional electrical contractor. Learn more.

07/23/2010 - Kewanee and Metro East Storms

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Several waves of storms are included in the EOC activity for the weekend of July 23-26th. The EOC was activated at 21:00 on July 23.

On Friday night wind damage five, 75 foot sub-transmission poles in the Kewanee area affecting over 3000 customers.

Early Saturday evening storms blew through western Illinois in two waves. First, creating outages in areas near Rushville, Havana, and Petersburg, and the second in the area near Quincy.

Late Saturday night storms moved through the St. Louis area. At the peak of these storms over 15,000 customers were without service. 1400 remained without service by morning and most were restored by noon on Sunday.

Work was completed safely. The EOC returned Ameren Illinois to normal operations on Monday morning at 07:00.

Addional information on the July 23-26 weekend storms event is available. Read more.

Emergency Event 20100723AIU