Edison faces reliability troubles in Santa Clarita

Three blackouts in three days have struck Southern California Edison users in the Santa Clarita Valley, just north of Los Angeles:

Saturday’s outage affected Canyon Country, Sunday’s hit the Saugus-Valencia area, and Monday’s hit Saugus, said Southern California Edison spokesman Paul Klein.

At 7:40 p.m. on Saturday, power shut off to 1,640 customers because of a malfunction beneath Begonias Lane and Shadow Pines Boulevard. The last of the customers got their lights back on at 1:06 a.m. on Sunday.

On Sunday, the valley saw less than nine hours of complete power-flow before more damaged subterranean equipment cut out 2,121 Valencia residents from the circuit. Workers righted this outage at 11:55 a.m.

Twelve hours later at midnight on Monday, another hit the Saugus-Valencia area. This blackout lasted until 7:35 a.m. and affected 3,290 customers. It was caused by failed underground equipment beneath Mockingbird Lane and Temoco Drive.