Up to 900 lose telephone service in Washougal

Frontier Communications employees are making preparations to begin repairing telephone line damage that has resulted in 700 to 900 residences in the Washougal area losing phone service.

According to Frontier Communications General Manager Ross Waggoner, at approximately noontime today a contractor working to install gas lines at 17th and “E” streets as part of a widening construction project severed two large cables that serve up to 2,400 residences.