(UPDATE)
Remaining customers have had their power restored, according to Alectra's webpage.
Alectra did not specify a cause for the outage.
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(UPDATE)
Hydro has been restored to most customers in southeast Barrie.
At the height of the outage which began around 10 a.m. Monday, about 4,000 Alectra customers were affected.
Alectra has not given a cause for the outage, but there are still 140 customers without hydro.
According to Alectra's phone line, restoration time is estimated at around 2:30 p.m.
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(UPDATE)
An extensive power outage in southeast Barrie is gradually being reduced.
There are still more than 1,100 hundred customers without hydro, down substantially from the more than 4,000 midday Monday morning.
Alectra has not said what caused the power outage, but according to their phone line, full restoration is expected around 2:30 p.m.
The outage has also knocked out traffic lights, so motorists should treat those intersections as four-way stops.
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Alectra is dealing with a widespread power outage in south Barrie that is affecting nearly 4,000 customers.
At around 11:30 a.m., the utility's website indicated the cause had not been determined, so there was no timeline for restoration.
Traffic lights are also out.
Impacted locations include the area around Yonge Street, Big Bay Point Road and Mapleview Drive East.
