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

To: flatsville who wrote (4370)	3/7/1999 2:07:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

GEEZ ... Lots of things in that import/export post that I hadn't considered. Cheeky sure likes to chase me around, doesn't he? He's even been popping up and posting to me on threads that I only sporadically and/or rarely post on. He seems to think I/we thrive on Y2K problems. He's SO off-base, but he'll never see it. I'm as happy as the next guy that Toronto's test went fine. I have some very good friends who live there and in Ottawa. Of course, Ontario had an advantage and a head start over much of U.S. with Y2K remediation. Last year's destructive ice-storm (which lasted for weeks) resulted in a major portion of their utility equipment and software being updated and/or replaced. Cheryl

To: flatsville who wrote (4370)	3/7/1999 2:45:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Ontario Water Agency will Shut Down Automated Systems 10:00am Dec 31 - Testimony By George Terry: Ontario Clean Water Agency December 8, 1998 ======================================================= First, I don't want people going away from here worried about the water and waste water industries not recognizing Y2K as a problem and not moving quickly to get it addressed. We're not only moving quickly, we're making sure our contingency plans are trialled and proofed prior to then. Where we find holes in the systems—say we require additional generation or additional computers to be available to us—we will make sure that we have that on site. Our staff will be on site with fully manual operations for December. For those of you who don't know, December 31 is a Friday. As such, our holidays are going to be on the Monday. The guys are going to appreciate that a lot, I'm sure. But by the same token, all of our staff will be there and will be ready. They will be fully trained again in manual operations. So those people who grew up with the automated systems will be back to understanding their basic operations. Our plan is to make sure that every water tower and reservoir is full as of 10 a.m. on that Friday night. Every sewage lift station's pump well will have been pumped down to zero. So if we have an event that takes place, we'll be ready for it. Now, our plants will go off the grid at 10 a.m. on December 31. They will be slowly phased out. We will go to manual operations on full generator backup. I really believe that Ontario Hydro is going to be in a place to actually provide power to all of our municipalities. We're just safeguarding our instrumentation in this regard. As we come to January 1, we're going to start to phase back our instrumentation in steps. That's all part of our contingency plan. Then we'll bring our plants back on into service. ampsc.com ============================================================= Sounds like they're doing a good job on contingency planning. Apparently they think it's better to be safe than sorry. Unlike Cheeky. Cheryl