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

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5377)	4/8/1999 11:14:00 AM
From: flatsville	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9818

Ron--Though the entries under the category "Things To Do In Denver at y2k" might be slim due to the "fix an failure" mentality, at least you'll be able to take a crp. See the following link for one of the great y2k success stories: insidedenver.com Now as for turning on the tap in Philly see: phillynews.com Government gearing up for new millennium with generators, stop signs Is city A-OK for Y2K? by Dave Davies Daily News Staff Writer <snip> The city has one power need that can't be met with emergency generators: Operating the pumps that keep millions of gallons of safe drinking water supplied to 500,000 water customers.* Deputy Commissioner Michael Nadol said the Water Department has been working since 1995 on getting its computers Year 2000-ready, and is pretty much done. The treatment plants can be operated indefinitely even if the computers shut down, Nadol said, with people monitoring instruments manually. What they can't do is pump all that water without electricity. "We've been evaluating options for stand-by generation," Nadol said, "but in many cases the power demand for these kinds of facilities make that unrealistic." The system could likely cope well with isolated power outages, and has in the past with lightning strikes and other disruptions. Only a massive blackout would leave the system incapacitated. If that happened, the city would promote conservation and use the substantial reserve of treated water in its large reservoirs. "It would take a really prolonged problem for much of the city to know the difference," Nadol said. The reservoir capacity would serve the city for up to 72 hours, but areas with higher elevation would experience problems sooner. Philadelphia Electric Y2K specialist Bob Farrington said Peco has tested its entire transmission and distribution system, feeding several post-2000 dates into them to see if the imbedded microchips have a problem. "I think our customers can expect a non-event," Farrington said of the Year 2000 change-over. "The most I could see happening is an isolated piece of equipment malfunctioning. There's not going to be any massive failure."