Contact: Maridith Geuder
To accommodate the installation of additional switches as Mississippi State nears completion of a university power plant, electrical power will be turned off to all central campus facilities during three Sundays, beginning Oct. 17.
A 26-megawatt gas turbine power plant being constructed near the substation on Blackjack Road will provide emergency backup and allow peak cost shaving when Tennessee Valley Authority rates are high.
To maintain the construction timetable, outages affecting main-campus facilities-including all residence halls-are scheduled:
Sunday [the 17th], 2-8 p.m.;
Sunday, Nov. 7, also 2-8 p.m.; and
Sunday, Nov. 28, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.
In addition to center-campus facilities, several fringe-area university facilities also will be affected. They include:
Aiken Village and Child Development Center;
Sorority houses on Robert Jones Boulevard and south of Bully Boulevard;
Campus buildings at 42, 44 and 46 Blackjack Road and the President's Home on Morrill Road;
Joe Frank Sanderson Center, Bryan Athletic Complex, Humphrey Coliseum, Shira Fieldhouse, and the north campus athletic fields;
Wise Center (College of Veterinary Medicine) and Scales Building;
All buildings along Stone Boulevard, including the new landscape architecture facility;
Lyle Entomology and Gast Boll Weevil laboratories;
All buildings/houses on Morgan and Magruder streets;
Cooley and Dewberry buildings, Receiving Station and Auxiliary Plaza;
Hunter Henry Alumni Center and MSU apartment buildings on University Drive;
Newell-Grissom and Hill Poultry Science buildings;
Edwards Reactor Laboratory;
All Buckner Lane buildings; and
McArthur Hall, Bost Extension Center, and Howell Agricultural and Biological Engineering Building.
Not affected by the transmission break will be a number of MSU facilities served by the Starkville Electric Department or 4-County Electric Power Association. These include faculty-staff housing on Morrill Road; Leveck Animal Science Research Center ("South Farm") south of the Scales Building; structures north of Highway 182 ("Old Highway 82"); Franklin Furniture and Forest Products laboratories; Center for Educational and Technology Training; Wildlife and Fisheries facilities on Blackjack; and all fraternity houses along Clyde Sheely Circle and north of Bully Boulevard.
For more information, telephone Ralph Nobles of the MSU physical plant at 325-2052.