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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (6062)	6/19/1999 8:51:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

DEEP DOO DOO Los Angeles officials will DELAY tests for year 2000 computer readiness at the Hyperion Treatment Plant until they are certain that there will be no sewage spills that could endanger Santa Monica Bay. In an emergency briefing of the city Public Works Board on Friday, Sanitation Bureau Manager Drew Sones said tests of Hyperion's backup electrical system--scheduled for next month--will be delayed while testing procedures are reexamined ... "Based on the Tillman incident, additional planning to assure there is not a similar or larger spill at Hyperion is extremely prudent," ... "Looking back, we should have had somebody out there," Birk told the board. "We thought we had everything covered. Obviously, we didn't have every detail covered." Birk said about 2,000 alarms went off in the first hour of the test, overwhelming operators who did not know which alarms were false and which were true ... Birk disclosed Friday that when the power was turned off at Tillman about 9:20 p.m. Wednesday, a problem with the diesel generator forced engineers to shut it down while a plug in an oil system could be cleared. When the power was turned back on, a computer sent an improper signal that closed a gate in an 8-foot-diameter pipeline carrying waste to Hyperion. Sewage backed up and spilled from the maintenance hole in the park starting about 10:50 p.m., Birk said. Birk blamed the problem on bad programming language put into the computer when it was installed in the 1980s ... Later Friday, the Los Angeles City Council voted to spend $7 million for equipment purchases to bring Sanitation Bureau computers into Y2K compliance, so they can properly read the date when 1999 changes to 2000 ... latimes.com Cheryl 195 Days ...