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Speaker 1: Last year, we were contacted by a number of people

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Speaker 1: wanting to know when a car which had collided with

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Speaker 1: power infrastructure was going to be removed. You know, people

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Speaker 1: were calling through saying Katie, it's a bit of an

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Speaker 1: eyesore anyway. Joining me on the line to give us

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Speaker 1: a bit of an update is Power and Water Corporation

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Speaker 1: Senior Manager of Assets Management Power Services, Stuart Easy. Good

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Speaker 1: morning to you, Stewart.

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Speaker 2: Good morning and good morning tones Stuart. This car.

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Speaker 1: It certainly was not Power and Water's fault that the

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Speaker 1: car had crashed into that infrastructure, but it seems as

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Speaker 1: though it caused you guys quite a pain in the

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Speaker 1: you know what. It took a while to get removed,

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Speaker 1: didn't I.

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Speaker 2: It certainly did, and obviously we would have loved to

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Speaker 2: get it removed sooner, but it was quite a complex assessment.

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Speaker 2: They need to be done on the tower after the damage.

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Speaker 2: It's not your typical day to day thing that we

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Speaker 2: need to deal with, so we needed to make sure

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Speaker 2: that we work through the engineering and the repair plans

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Speaker 2: really thoroughly to absolutely get the conference that once to

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Speaker 2: remove that car there was no risk to the tower

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Speaker 2: or public safety.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because it was like they crashed into to really

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Speaker 1: quite a large bit of infrastructure there. To those that

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Speaker 1: sort of don't know what we're talking about, just explain

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Speaker 1: the actual location for us if you can.

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Speaker 2: Stewart, we've got transmission lines that connect O and CBD

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Speaker 2: to the rest of their network. So those lines, a

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Speaker 2: couple of those large lines run along Tiger brand And Drive.

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Speaker 2: So this tower runs is located on the corner intersection

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Speaker 2: of Tiger Breann and Drive and where the Fisherman Dwarf

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Speaker 2: area is. So it's about twenty meters off the road

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Speaker 2: and there's actually a little bit of table drains and

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Speaker 2: other street light poles between the road and the tower.

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Speaker 2: So it's pretty extraordinary that it made all the way

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Speaker 2: off the road and into the tower.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. And you know, if you walk past

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Speaker 1: that area or if you drive past that area, you

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Speaker 1: know a lot of people were thinking, goodness, me, how

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Speaker 1: did it end up there? And I guess, you know,

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Speaker 1: we don't know the answers to that, but how long

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Speaker 1: did it take to remove the car?

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Speaker 2: So, as I said, the damage that the car did

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Speaker 2: to the tower because of the way it was sort

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Speaker 2: of launched onto the tower, so the damage was quite

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Speaker 2: widespread and affected multiple parts of the tower. The toilers

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Speaker 2: that what we call lattice towers, that they're made up

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Speaker 2: of lots of structural pieces, lots of steal components. So

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Speaker 2: when multiple components are damaged, it's really up to us

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Speaker 2: to really ensure that there's no structural risk to the tower.

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Speaker 2: So that took a fair bit of engineering. These towers

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Speaker 2: are built forty fifty years ago, so we really had

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Speaker 2: to go through a reengineering process ensure that every repair

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Speaker 2: that we were going to make and every bit of

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Speaker 2: damage was going to be adequately restored so we could

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Speaker 2: have absolute confidence that tower is going to continue to

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Speaker 2: operate for a very long time and reliably and safely.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I do understand. I mean you sort of touched

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Speaker 1: on it, but there were obviously there was the risk

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Speaker 1: of interruptions, you know, to the power supply if that

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Speaker 1: full assessment wasn't conducted, and you know, if that work

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Speaker 1: wasn't done really quite carefully by the sounds of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, it's it's a perraori to make sure that,

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Speaker 2: you know, once we did the repairs, we did them once,

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Speaker 2: and we did them correctly, so there was no further

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Speaker 2: risk to supply or safety.

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Speaker 1: Well, Stuart, well done, well done on making sure that

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Speaker 1: it was all sort of all removed. Was the infrastructure

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Speaker 1: damaged in the end, like, was there much repair work

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Speaker 1: that was needed?

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Speaker 2: Look, there's a few days of work involved with just

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Speaker 2: making sure that the replacement components that were installed were

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Speaker 2: done safely, just to again manage that risk around not

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Speaker 2: putting supply at risk or not having to disrupt customers.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, just taking it, taking it to the right

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Speaker 2: pace to make sure that we could control the risks

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Speaker 2: and complete the work safely.

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Speaker 1: Well. Hor and Water Corporation's Senior Manager of Asset Management

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Speaker 1: Power Services Stewart EC thank you so very much for

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Speaker 1: your time this morning. I appreciate you having a chat

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Speaker 1: with us and letting us know about the removal of

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Speaker 1: that car.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Stuart,