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

To: Ken who wrote (7517)	7/31/1999 9:23:00 PM
From: ANGELIQUE LEE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

I am not a plumber, but we recently put in a new bathroom and the plumber took some time to explain that there was some set up (a vacuum device I believe) that prevents sewage from getting into the water lines, in the unlikely event of a back-up. If no one posts info by next week, he's due back and I'll ask him about it. Angelique

To: Ken who wrote (7517)	8/1/1999 1:03:00 AM
From: Scrumpy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Ken, can you please provide the sewage backpressure-to-Y2K logical link, beyond "might", "may" or "could"? Though I have a few engineering degrees, I admittedly haven't read up on sewage pump failures either, especially ones that might induce Y2K-specific BACK-PRESSURE forces in a DRAINAGE system sufficient enough to force effluent into the drinking water line. Yeah, I know what happens when you drop a cherry bomb down a toilet, but unless a sizable force is applied at the sewage station, I cannot envision more than a teaspoon of muck bubbling BACK UP THROUGH THE TOILET, let alone through the drinking faucet. Not that I care, as I get my water delivered. Scrumpy