Update, UI says no planned shutdown of substation

(WTNH) -- A United Illuminating spokesman tells News 8 there is currently no firm decision to turn off a substation.

Earlier reports said 35,000 UI customers in Bridgeport would lose power at Noon when the Congress St substation is shut down because of flooding. 

"Customers expected to be impacted from @UnitedIllum outage are in downtown area, as well as a portions of North End, East Side & East End," Mayor Bill Finch said via Twitter.

However, UI spokesman Michael West told News 8 that was not the case.

"As the tide continues to rise however far it goes, we'll make a determination once get a level where we need to have a critical decision made, but that is not the case currently. So at noon, there would not be a specific de-energizing of a substation in Bridgeport." Michael West, UI spokesman.

At Gov. Dannel Malloy's noon briefing, Tny Marone of UI said "we came very close"  but they did not have to turn that substation off during the noon tide cycle.