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For approximately 12 hours from June 19-20, power was lost to the pumping booster station that provides water to Lion Oil, Chemtura and El Dorado Chemical.

Union Power Station manager Bill O’Brien told members of the Union County Water Conservation Board about this issue on Wednesday.

The power station manages the pumping unit.

The outage was due to a two-fold problem: Lightning struck a communications network used by the power station when interacting with the pumping station, and a vehicle struck a utility pole next to the station, knocking o...