{"id":15124,"date":"2011-03-29T12:16:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T19:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/copper-wire-stolen-from-bonneville-power-administration-covington-substation\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T13:30:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T20:30:33","slug":"copper-wire-stolen-from-bonneville-power-administration-covington-substation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/copper-wire-stolen-from-bonneville-power-administration-covington-substation\/","title":{"rendered":"Copper wire stolen from Bonneville Power Administration Covington substation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpa.gov\/corporate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bonneville Power Administration<\/a> worker last week discovered thieves had broken into a Bonneville Power  Administration substation near Covington and stole copper wire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>BPA and law enforcement officials are investigating, and the BPA is  offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to the arrest  and conviction of those responsible.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The incident occurred at the Covington Substation at 28401 Covington  Way SE near Costco. \u00a0 The perpetrators cut a hole in the substation fence and stole  copper wire cut from equipment.\u00a0 The damage is estimated at $5,000.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Through its Crime Witness Program, BPA offers up to $25,000 for  information leading to the arrest and conviction of individuals  committing crimes against BPA facilities and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Anyone with information is asked to call BPA&#8217;s confidential and  toll-free Crime Witness Hotline at 800-437-2744 or local law  enforcement.\u00a0 Tips can also be provided to officer Devon Stratton with  the Covington Police Department at 253-638-1110, ext. 2244.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In 2010, BPA made two $300 awards to individuals who provided tips on  thefts BPA experienced in southwest Washington.\u00a0 Since 2006, BPA has  paid 12 rewards totaling almost $14,000.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u201cWe\u2019re hoping that this information will help jog the memory of  someone who may know about the break in and theft or may have seen  something suspicious at the substation,\u201d Kevin West said, BPA physical  security specialist. \u201cSometimes even small details can help law  enforcement officials make significant investigative progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>BPA is a nonprofit federal electric utility that operates a  high-voltage transmission grid comprising more than 15,000 miles of  lines and associated substations in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and  Montana.\u00a0 It also markets more than a third of the electricity consumed  in the Pacific Northwest. The power is produced at 31 federal dams  operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation  and one nuclear plant in the Northwest and is sold to more than 140  Northwest utilities.\u00a0 BPA purchases power from seven wind projects and  has more than 3,500 megawatts of wind interconnected to its transmission  system.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><small><a style=\"color: #0000ff;text-align: left\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=d&amp;source=embed&amp;saddr=28401+Covington+Way+SE,+covington+wa&amp;daddr=&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;mra=ls&amp;sll=47.312154,-122.012763&amp;sspn=0.009326,0.014226&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=47.350236,-122.119517&amp;spn=0.005088,0.00912&amp;z=16\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bonneville Power Administration worker last week discovered thieves had broken into a Bonneville Power Administration substation near Covington and stole copper wire.<\/p>\n<p>A Bonneville Power Administration worker last week discovered thieves had broken into a Bonneville Power Administration substation near Covington and stole copper wire.<\/p>\n<p>BPA and law enforcement officials are investigating, and the BPA is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.<\/p>\n<p>BPA and law enforcement officials are investigating, and the BPA is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15124"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}