Walhalla Power Outage 28 Nov ‘huge blow’.
AusNet Services will switch off power for infrastructure stress testing on Saturday 28th November 2020 from 8:30am until 4:00pm forcing the closure of businesses in the historic township of Walhalla. President of Walhalla & Mountain Rivers Tourism, Russell Wright, said “This forced closure will be another huge blow to the local tourism industry who have been closed for some 7 months. We have contacted AusNet and have expressed our frustration and disappointment at this poorly timed maintenance works. Their poor attitude of ‘it’s our schedule’ ignores the fact that Walhalla is a town 100% reliant on tourist trade and that the weekend is actually our peak trading period.”