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To: John Mansfield who wrote (23113)	11/18/1998 3:32:00 PM
From: Stephen O	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116873

Water flows everyday. It does not need computers to do this. It doesn't matter whether it's monday, Christmas day or Jan 1,2000 or Jan 10th 2000. If there is a glitch somewhere a manual override will be there. It is not an earthquake or mud slide that is happening. But I haven't read the article.

To: John Mansfield who wrote (23113)	11/18/1998 5:29:00 PM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116873

Many systems which control the flow of water, the basic switchgear employed are quite simple. Some of the recordkeeping or more advanced communication devices may have some mpcs technology in it, but not the devices which actually can shut off flows automatically (more relay type technology) -- it's just not that high tech for the most part. Most valves and controls have manual over-rides if there were to be such a shutdown of a pump or a valve close improperly. I can just about guarantee that a malfunction resulting in a shutdown is very unlikely to be based on the change of the date. Y2K is serious from the financial standpoint because it will effect record keeping and billing systems which have not been fixed. The cost of the fixes is high relatively speaking to the embedded value (undepreciated costs) of the IT systems in place at some water utilities.