How many Sherbrooke residents does it take to change a light bulb?

By Gordon Lambie
How many Sherbrooke residents does it take to change a light bulb?
(Photo : Gordon Lambie)

The City of Sherbrooke launched a new online tool to report and respond to lighting issues on its territory on Monday evening.
According to David Seminaro, Head of the lines division at Hydro Sherbrooke, the city receives roughly 1,500 reports of lighting problems each year ranging from burnt-out bulbs to wasp nests. Coming as they do by phone or through email, however, it is difficult to know when requests have doubled up or been addressed properly.
The new map, which is already online, allows one to see where issues have already been reported in the city and also report them yourself.
“You can also indicate a problem with a structure that does not appear on the map,” Seminaro said, acknowledging that the new tool does not yet have a perfect inventory of all municipal lights in the city.

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