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Almost all power is back online, officials say. Swimmers warned off some beaches because of outage- caused sewage spill(CNN) - - A short- circuit at a substation in North Gila, Arizona, set off a series of failures that led to the massive power outage that left millions of people in California, Arizona and Mexico in the dark, San Diego Gas and Electric Co. President Michael Niggli said Friday.
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Niggli said automatic safeguards prevented the Thursday afternoon blackout from spreading even farther, but he said an investigation will be necessary to determine why safeguards that could have further limited the outage did not work. San Diego schools took the day off, and a sewage spill caused by the outage prompted health officials to warn swimmers off some beaches. The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station near San Clemente, California, which provides electricity for San Diego, remained offline Friday after automatically shutting down when the blackout cascaded across the power grid. The reactors at the San Onofre plant went into normal shutdown mode after the units detected .
Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Office of Public Affairs. The shutdown posed no threat to workers or residents, he said. Niggli and the state's power grid manager, California ISO, asked customers to continue conserving energy to prevent further blackouts as a result of what Niggli said was still a .
But the good news is that everything we have prepared for worked like clockwork. Navy for powering up generators aboard its many ships in port, freeing up the utility to restore power sooner to other customers. An Arizona Public Service Co. That knocked out a major transmission line that carries power to California. Low- voltage readings sent the nuclear plant into shutdown, and the blackout was on, he said.
The blackout brought business in the region to a halt. Trains and trolleys stopped in their tracks, transportation authorities said. San Diego International Airport shut down for a time.
Businesses had to close. People were stuck in elevators.
The power failure caused sewage to spill from San Diego's wastewater treatment system into the Torrey Pines State Beach area as well as the Sweetwater River. Utility workers were able to get the power back on for San Diego residents by early Friday. In addition to San Diego, power returned late Thursday for consumers in Arizona, where about 5.
California's Orange and Imperial counties. About 1. 70,0. 00 people in those two counties were affected, utility officials said. Mexico's border cities, including Tijuana, and parts of Mexico's Baja California and Sonora states were also affected by the outage, Mexican authorities said.
It was unclear Friday whether power had been restored to all of those communities or how many people had been affected. California residents need to continue conserving energy through the weekend, Niggli said. The area's power system is still . The department is also posting contamination warnings at Bayside Park in Chula Vista and the San Diego Bay near Silver Stand. The city also warned that tens of thousands of people might have to boil water after a number of pump stations and filtration systems shut down. Authorities quickly ruled out terrorism, which was on many minds in the days leading up the 1.
September 1. 1 attacks. He said he spoke with his girlfriend and her family, who also asked if it was related to a terror incident. Carter, Alta Spells, Greg Morrison and Tina Burnside and CNNMexico.