Power outage on Seventh Street

As of 4:41 p.m., today, April 2, Southern California Edison reports that work crews are repairing the power outage on Seventh Street. Edison gives 8 p.m. as the estimated time for the repairs. The outage briefly disappeared from the Edison website in mid-afternoon. The Sun incorrectly reported that the outage was apparently over.

Southern California Edison was expected to restore power to Seventh Street by 8 p.m., Tuesday, April 3, according to Southern California Edison’s outage website. However, the outage was apparently over by mid-afternoon. The utility had previously projected restoring power to 57 customers by 3:45 p.m. According to Edison, the cause of the outage was being analyzed as of 1:26 p.m., April 3. Seal Beach’s Old Town area suffered a series of outages in early 2016.