ConEd Prepares Electrical Grid on Eighth Ave for Summer

On a bright spring day, a thick cable was cranked slowly down into a manhole on Eighth Avenue.  

According to the workers from Consolidated Edison in the intersection of Berkeley Place, they were installing a secondary electric cable into the manhole to help make the electrical grid a more robust.  

The secondary cable is meant as a backup, so if a fire breaks out this summer residents in the area will not lose power.  

"Summer is coming and we're preparing the grid to help prevent outages. In case there's a manhole fire, this secondary cable will make sure that the electricity in this area doesn't go out," a ConEd crew worker said while he fed the cable down the manhole last week.  

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