Responsibilities

The Reliability Crew began official operation in the spring of 2007.  Phil Jarvis is the Foreman of this crew and had been a Journeyman Lineman in the overhead and underground crews.  He has been with BARC for over eleven years now.  Moe Keyser is the Operator/Groundman and had been a groundman in the Right Of Way crew since he was hired in October of 1999.   

The purpose of the Reliability Crew is to perform preventive maintenance on BARC’s distribution lines.  This crew does a complete inspection of circuits coming from each Substation on BARC's system.  Numerous potential outage-causing problems have been discovered and corrected before causing an outage.  The crew has replaced broken cross arms, repaired broken wires, replaced cracked and broken insulators, and replaced broken porcelain switches.  It is clear that this crew is helping to improve reliability of service to BARC customers.

A new bucket truck was purchased in early 2007 with this crew in mind.  It is the first four wheel drive bucket BARC has owned in several years.  Not only is it very handy for the reliability crew, but helps out in several other situations.  They have assisted the line crews in hard to get to places and on numerous occasions have assisted the area servicemen in getting your lights back on faster because they could access the trouble better.  With the bucket truck they can do most of their maintenance on energized lines so folks don’t experience an outage while they are making the repairs.