Work crews from the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) have been out in the field throughout August in an effort to correct the recurrent power failures that have plagued La Floresta residents during this year’s rainy season.
The utility company’s regional superintendent José Ruben Santana Ochoa tells the Reporter that the residential subdivision’s rich and untamed tree life is mostly to blame for the constant blackouts. In a few cases, electrical equipment feeding the neighborhood has been damaged when large trees have fallen during several severe storms. However, most of the problems are attributed to overgrown branches that have caused shorts when the weight of rainfall brings them into direct contact with power lines.
CFE men are still making rounds street by street to spot and trim branches that are hanging dangerously close to electrical wires. Personnel at La Floresta’s administrative office coincide with Santana’s that suggestion that property owners can help nip problems in the bud with regular preventive tree pruning on their respective lots.