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Power restored in Chapel Hill

A problem at a Duke Energy substation on Cameron Avenue knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses in Chapel Hill and Carrboro Wednesday afternoon.
Posted 2008-10-15T18:38:02+00:00 - Updated 2008-10-15T19:47:54+00:00

A problem at a Duke Energy substation on Cameron Avenue knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses in Chapel Hill and Carrboro Wednesday afternoon.

More than 6,100 customers were without power, including a quarter of the University of North Carolina campus, officials said.

Power was restored after about an hour. Officials were trying to determine the cause of the outage.

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