Thousands of Entegrus customers spent several hours Monday afternoon without power in north Chatham.
The utility reported the outage shortly after 4 p.m. on Monday. As of 5:30 p.m., the outage was affecting more than 3,200 customers in Chatham.
Entegrus officials say a tree was found on a line on Gregory Drive. Power was rerouted and repairs were made with all service restored shortly after 9pm.
An outage was also reported in Merlin, affecting almost 200 customers until roughly 7pm.