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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: flatsville who wrote (3292)1/16/1999 10:20:00 AM
From: flatsville  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
To all--Some good news in the contingency planning area. Rocky Mountain News reports the Denver metro area sewer district is purchasing an $800,000 biogas generator to produce its own electricity to operate the sewage treatment plant rather than rely on the local electric utility for service at rollover. (Currently the biogas is sold off to the local public utility.) The district is also stock piling treatment chemicals. A plan to run the plant manually at rollover is also in place.
This is the first "good" news story I've picked up re: water and sewer providers. Given the state of remediation and contingency planning as reported by the industry associations, more innovative and thoughtful approaches like this are needed. Public health is at great risk otherwise.
I spoke with an M.D. on the csy2k chat line a couple of weeks ago. He assured me my fears re: public health were not overblown. In his opinion should the electric grid prove seriously unreliable the biggest threat to public health would be exposure, next contaminated drinking water. Deaths from dehydration due to diarrhea are a possibility.
A good plan for the concerned is to print the following url and pay a call to your sewer provider at the next public meeting where it will be difficult to brush off y2k concerns as "overblown." Apparently the good folks at the Denver area metro district don't believe that is the case.

"flatsville"

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