From the general manager of Mississippi River Power Corp:

On November 17th, ORPC customers in the Mill Street area will experience a planned power interruption from 6:30am until 3:00pm. This outage is necessary for us (Mississippi River Power) to replace our power transformer.

As a point of clarification, MRPC and ORPC are two separate companies. MRPC generates power. ORPC distributes it and maintains the lines throughout town. ORPC added an outage map on their website showing the affected area (shown here).

It’s a little difficult to tell from the map, but both sides of lower Mill Street will be affected up to and including 26 Mill Street (Antiques & Collectibles). From there up the street, only the north side of the street is in the outage zone. Businesses on Bridge Street are not in the outage zone. Nor is the Almonte Old Town Hall. All businesses and residences on Little Bridge Street, including the Thoburn Mill, Barley Mow, etc. are in the zone. Enerdu is in the zone, but Canadian Hydro Components is not.

If all goes well, power should be restored before 3pm. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience of this necessary interruption.