Does anyone have a link to the report of the Los Angeles Y2K Sewage Event from a few months ago? I belive it was once on the 'sightings' page and on Norths as well, I tried the CNN finder and came up dry...Anyone have the story or location? Seems strange that even the AP, UPI, and Reuters finders had no idea on it...curiouser and curiouser....

-- Billy-Boy (Rakkasn@Yahoo.com), September 06, 1999

Answers

here's where it is on the Sightings site:

http://www.sightings.com/politics4/ y2kspill.htm

btw......sightings has a search engine located near the top of the home page.....it's the easiest way to find the stories that have fallen off the headlines page....

-- andrea (mebsmebs@hotmail.com), September 06, 1999.

Thanks Andrea...

-- Billy-Boy (Rakkasn@Yahoo.com), September 06, 1999.

Youll find some (not all) links down towards the bottom of this category...

Explosions/Fires/HAZMAT Accidents (New) Threads

http:// www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-one-category.tcl?topic= TimeBomb%202000%20%28Y2000%29&category= Explosions%2fFires%2fHAZMAT%20Accidents%20%28New%29

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), September 06, 1999.

Here's one from the archives.

L.A. Sewage spill followup article, Further testing delayed.

-- Chris (%$^&^@pond.com), September 06, 1999.

http://www.channel2000.com/news/stories/news-990617-081237.html

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Y2K Test Causes Huge Sewage Spill

4 Million Gallons Seeped Into A Van Nuys Park

VAN NUYS, Calif., Updated 12:03 p.m. June 17, 1999 -- How do you know when a computer system has failed a Y2K test? When it caused 4 million gallons of raw sewage to spill into the streets.

CBS 2 News reports crews armed with vacuum trucks worked through the night to clean up the mess that seeped out of the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation plant.

The sewage started coming out of a utility hole near the plant on Woodley Avenue south of Victory Boulevard about midnight, plant manager Bob Birk told reporters.

The spill flowed about 500 feet onto Woodley Avenue and into a brushy area at Lake Balboa Park. According to CBS 2 News, the mess isn't expected to harm the vegetation, rather it will likely act as fertilizer.

The spill occurred when the plant was testing its Y2K contingency plan yesterday by mimicking various computer malfunctions.

Experiencing a power outage was one of the scenarios and, in that case, the plant switches to its emergency generator, Birk said.

The error occurred when a computer closed a gate, blocking a major sewage line serving the western San Fernando Valley and causing the sewage to back up and overflow, a wire service reports.

"The computer didn't tell us it closed the gate," Birk said, adding the reason for the problem was not immediately clear.

According to CBS 2 News, part of the park will remain closed through the weekend as the sun burns off high levels of bacteria.

Y2K, or the millennium bug, is the moniker given to computer problems that could occur when programs with internal clocks or calendars roll over to the year 2000.

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-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), September 06, 1999.