Name: Power cooperatives discuss a second Beaver Island cable after repeated failures, 1983
Start: 1983-09-21
End: 1984
Location: Beaver Island

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Event

Dates: 1983-09-21 – 1984
Kind: Meeting
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: energyinfrastructuregovernmentcommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

At a September 21, 1983 public meeting, power cooperatives and regulators discussed repeated underwater-cable failures, roughly $200,000 in repairs, and a proposed $1.3 million second cable for Beaver Island.

Evidence limits

The report records discussion and plans, not funding, engineering approval, construction, or later reliability.

Sources

Public power-supply meeting, Beaver Beacon, October 1983.
Reports a September 21 meeting with Top O' Michigan, Wolverine Power Supply, Public Service Commission, and township representatives; the meeting discussed three underwater-cable breaks, about $200,000 in repairs, a proposed $1.3 million second cable targeted for 1984, and generator monitoring. It is a newspaper account of a public meeting, not an engineering study, loan approval, construction record, or reliability guarantee. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, October 1983, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held eleven-page October issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the power-supply meeting report.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Power cooperatives discuss a second Beaver Island cable after repeated failures, 1983”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-power-cable-second-cable-plan-1983/, accessed [date], citing Public power-supply meeting, Beaver Beacon, October 1983. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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