CHESAPEAKE, Va. — A barge hit a transmission line in the Elizabeth River Saturday afternoon, causing thousands of Dominion Energy customers to lose power.
At one point, Dominion Energy reported more than 20,000 customers impacted by an outage, according to the Dominion Energy outage map. Outages were mostly contained to Chesapeake, though some were reported along the Virginia Beach border.
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A Dominion Energy spokesperson told News 3 that the line pulled back to both sides of the shore.
Dominion Energy crews were working with the United States Coast Guard to remove the line from shore, the spokesperson said. The incident did not impact marine traffic.
Power was restored by 4:30 p.m.
