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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (5631)5/4/1999 3:59:00 PM
From: flatsville  Read Replies (2) of 9818
 
A tale of my sewer and water providers.--Somtime mid-summer I was planning to get the final full skinny re: compliance and contingency planning from my sewer and water provider. However the nature conservancy behind my home has experienced flooding due to mismanagement of storm water, road construction and nearby housing development and I have been drawn into the utility issues earlier than I had planned. The 10-12,000 year old pond (formed by glacial activity has now turned into a "lake") can no longer self-clean through percolation because it is clogged with silt and road dirt and being used as a catchment for excess storm water and deep well flushing. The water level has risen so high in the past 10 years that it swamped the old shoreline killing trees 30-50 ft. beyond the edged of our back yard and in some cases swamped some backyards so the water is now within four feet of some foundations. Another prolonged rain event and we'll have to sand bag some of the neighbors. We have a major storm moving in tonight (the one that tore through OK and KS spawning tornados.) A very sad state of affairs for a "nature conservancy."

So while grilling the city water utility as to just why they flushed millions gallons of water into the pond and what just did they think would happen when this ocurred and the metro area sewer provider as to why they have not pumped off the estimated 60 million gallons of water as promised in April yaddah...yaddah...yaddah...I decided to bring up y2k compliance and contingency planning. The water utility claims the engineers have not found one date dependent embedded system. The real problem for them is electric service. So I asked what contingency plans they had for power failure...then the squirming started. They have three generators and storage capability for 1500 gals. of diesel...In other words back-up power capability for 2-3 days at best. The sewer provider was downright haughty about the situation. They claim their systems are in order due to recent upgrades. The real problem is of course power. They have a biogas generator which provides about one-third of the power needed to run the system, but without additional power within 4-6 hours sewage back-ups are likely, within 12-24 hours they can't treat or pump. No plans to provide that additional power should the need arise. The man I spoke with is convinced rollover will be a non-event and couldn't justify the additional expense of back-up power. He is confident the tell me. Both utility representatives assured me their billing systems were up to speed.
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