Street Lights

STREET LIGHT RECOVERY COMPLETE

Coffey Park Street Light Recovery (PID 2233) Completed November 2020

Fountaingrove Area Street Light Recovery (PID 2246) Completed September 2020 

STREET LIGHT RECOVERY UPDATE FOR COFFEY PARK (September 2020)

Post-fire streetlight recovery is being implemented in a phased-in approach in coordination with PG&E to replace 231 fire-damaged streetlights in the Coffey Park area. The first phase of streetlight restoration was completed earlier this month in the area of Coffey Park located north of Hopper Avenue and east of Coffey Lane. As new streetlights are installed and energized, PG&E will remove the temporary streetlights. The streetlight restoration process for the remaining recovery phases is experiencing a temporary delay as a result of an industry-wide concrete shortage. Streetlight recovery in the Coffey park area is anticipated to be completed before the end of the year; weather and material availability permitting.

STREET LIGHT RECOVERY -- UPDATE (March 2020)

The contract to replace fire-damaged street lights in Coffey Park has been awarded to St. Francis Electric. Construction to install all 170 direct bury street lights in Coffey Park is expected to begin by the end of March with complete restoration anticipated in four (4) months, weather permitting. The street lights will be installed in a phased approach in coordination with PG&E. As the new street lights are installed and energized, PG&E will remove the temporary street lights. The contractor will notify Coffey Park residents of street light installation dates as they progress through the construction phases.

STREET LIGHT RECOVERY -- UPDATE (February 2020)

The following information provides the latest streetlight restoration status update by street and/or neighborhood area:

Hidden Valley: City crews have repaired and re-energized all fire-damaged street lights in the Hidden Valley neighborhood.

Rincon Ridge: Crews continue replacing globes, fixtures and wiring. As the streetlights are repaired and reactivated, the high-pressure sodium fixtures are being replaced with more efficient LED fixtures. Unfortunately, some of the street lights in the area were damaged beyond repair and will require complete replacement of the pole, wiring, fixture and globe.

Crown Hill and adjacent cul-de-sac streets: Majority of the street lights have been repaired and re-energized.

Fir Ridge and South Ridge: The City contract has been awarded to replace approximately 40 wooden poles street light destroyed in the fire. The contractor is ordering new replacement poles and currently repairing, replacing and testing damaged conduits.

Parker Hill Road: City crews have repaired and re-energized the majority of street lights and are pulling new wires for lighting along pathways.

Skyfarm: The prototype replacement for the unique carriage fixtures located in Skyfarm have been approved and the contract is currently out for bid.

Coffey Park: The street light infrastructure system design is complete for Coffey Park and the City has put a contract out to bid. The light poles and fixtures are on hand and ready for installation once the contractor is selected and begins construction. The existing temporary light poles will be removed once the replacement poles are installed and energized, which is expected to be completed June 2020.

View street light recovery progress on an interactive map

Contact Information

As requests are received from residents to re-energize lights at specific locations, City crews will investigate and attempt to repair and re-energize the lights. Residents may request a street light be evaluated for viable re-energization by contacting Transportation and Public Works at 707-543-3800. For accuracy and efficiency, when reporting an outage, it is recommended that the street light pole number located on the front of the pole facing the street be provided.

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STREET LIGHT RECOVERY -- UPDATE (October 2019)

City crews are working diligently to repair, re-energize and reactivate fire-damaged street lights. As requests are received from residents to re-energize lights at specific locations, City crews will investigate and attempt to repair and re-energize the lights.Unfortunately, certain street lights cannot be immediately repaired and turned back on due to various circumstances --  the following information provides the latest streetlight restoration status update by street and/or neighborhood area:

Hidden Valley: Over the past few months, city crews repaired and re-energized 38 lights in the Hidden Valley neighborhood, with three remaining lights waiting on PG&E to complete their work. 

Rincon Ridge: Crews were able to reactivate 40 lights throughout various parts of the neighborhood. Preparation work has been completed on an additional 30 viable street lights waiting on delivery of the acrylic globes, which are expected to arrive by mid-October. As the streetlights are repaired and reactivated, the high-pressure sodium fixtures are being replaced with more efficient LED fixtures. Unfortunately, some of the street lights in the area were damaged beyond repair and will require complete replacement of the pole, wiring, fixture and globe.

Crown Hill and adjacent cul-de-sac streets:  47 street lights have been activated. 

Fir Ridge and South Ridge: The City has put a contract out to bid that includes approximately 40 street light replacements of wooden poles destroyed in the fire. 

Parker Hill Road: City crews are focused on re-energizing streetlights.

Skyfarm: The unique carriage fixtures located in Skyfarm that were damaged during the fires have proven difficult to replace. Staff are actively working with a vendor to test and confirm functionality and appropriate fit of potential replacement options for the damaged carriage fixtures.

Coffey Park: The street light infrastructure system design is complete for Coffey Park and the City has put a contract out to bid. The light poles and fixtures are on hand and ready for installation once the contractor is selected and begins construction. The existing temporary light poles will be removed once the replacement poles are installed and energized, which is expected to be completed June 2020.

View street light recovery progress on an interactive map

Contact Information

As requests are received from residents to re-energize lights at specific locations, City crews will investigate and attempt to repair and re-energize the lights. Residents may request a street light be evaluated for viable re-energization by contacting Transportation and Public Works at 707-543-3800. For accuracy and efficiency, when reporting an outage, it is recommended that the street light pole number located on the front of the pole facing the street be provided.

STREET LIGHT RECOVERY -- UPDATE (June 2019)

Over 500 city-owned street lights were damaged during the Tubbs Fire. Staff has been working closely with PG&E to re-energize both individual and groups of streetlights when requested by residents and where possible, due to confirmation that the electrical infrastructure is intact. Where the infrastructure is not intact, the City has established a phased recovery prioritization process to rebuild, re-energize, and where necessary, to redesign the system.

Post-fire recovery prioritization has been strategically assessed based on immediate need for citizen’s health and safety.  Restoring water quality to the affected advisory area was assessed as the highest priority, and the City worked closely with State and Federal regulatory agencies for a year to replace the damaged water delivery system, lifting the water quality advisory in the fire-impacted Fountaingrove neighborhoods on October 11, 2018.

Beginning in the Summer of 2018, and due to the significant number of rebuilding permits issued in the Coffey Park neighborhood, staff began coordinating closely with PG&E working to rebuild and redesign the street light service connections to ensure that street lighting is restored as residents begin to move back into their rebuilt homes. Since PG&E needed to replace their entire underground system, they installed overhead poles with street lights to provide service to the properties in the rebuild process. During the initial phase of the street light recovery project, PG&E severed a majority of the existing street light service connections in the Coffey Park area. City staff worked with PG&E to rectify the service point connections; however, follow-up inspections found many missing street light service points and missing conduit, allowing for only a small percentage of street lights to be energized.  Once the City has completed restoring service connections and replacing damaged street light hardware, PG&E will then begin removing the temporary overhead lights.  This work is well underway.

PG&E has now begun working in both the Fountaingrove and Hidden Valley neighborhoods to replace and repair their damaged infrastructure. This has allowed City staff to conduct a detailed investigation of damaged service lines and equipment, which wrapped up early April. That investigation provided staff with a clear understanding of the level of damage caused to the underground electrical system as well as the poles, fixtures and globes. With this information, staff has begun working to restore groups of street lights where the underground infrastructure is intact. In many cases, PG&E has de-energized service lines throughout Fountaingrove due lack of activity on many lots and over the past year they have been working with the City on a case-by-case basis to energize individual street lights. Based on the recent investigation, PG&E and the City will be able to restore more street lights in the Fountaingrove and Hidden Valley neighborhoods in the coming weeks, with crews restoring 45 street lights this week; 15 having been repaired and energized in Fountaingrove and 30 repaired in Hidden Valley awaiting PG&E to energize the service lines.

Due to the significant number of disasters nationwide that resulted in damaged street lights and recent tariffs placed on steel, delivery time for new street light poles is exceeding 16 weeks. Staff proactively purchased over 200 cobra-head style poles and fixtures in November that arrived into the Corporation Yard last week. A majority of these are scheduled to be installed in Coffey Park with the others slated for areas in Fountaingrove and Hidden Valley that had these pole and fixture types. The City will not be reinstalling wood pole carriage lights due to their susceptibility of burning during an urban wildfire. Therefore, staff has identified and selected a metallic version of the carriage light in an effort to balance improving long term durability with the original aesthetic of the community.  New fixtures and globes are currently on order for the post-top style fixtures that are located throughout most of Fountaingrove. Staff is utilizing existing stock to address as many of those locations where the underground infrastructure is still intact. Based on the anticipated material delivery timelines and aside from those areas that had wooden street light poles, we anticipate being able to restore a majority of the damaged street lights by Fall of this year.

A key component of this work has been the coordination and project development with CalOES and FEMA. While the project description was easily determined, the financing authority and eligible FEMA reimbursement has been extremely complicated and is still outstanding.

Residents may request a street light be evaluated for viable re-energization by contacting  707-543-3800. For accuracy and efficiency, when reporting an outage, it is recommended that the street light pole number located on the front of the pole facing the street be provided.