Swimming in Huntington beach area was prohibited for the last several weeks because of high bacteria count tested at local beaches source suspected is local sewer treatment plant could this be another botched y2k test

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For several weeks swimming at our local beaches has been discouraged due to unusually high bacteria counts tested there. They suspect that a local sewer treatment plant is to blame but they cant seem to find exactly where the leaks are coming from. I wonder if this may be the result of a y2k test gone bad and they are trying to cover it up. this happen soon after the L.A test. Wonder if there related. If anyone has more facts about this please share. Watching closely for y2k related testing failure evidence, Y2k aware mike

-- y2k aware mike (y2k aware mike @ conservation . com), August 20, 1999

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You are way too paranoid. Pretty soon you will blame your backed up toilet on Y2K. I dont mean this in a troll-like snipe at you but some people here are losing touch with reality. Why has everything become possibly Y2K related. Mike, you are watching TOO CLOSE.

-- Fat Tony (FatTony@youmammashouse.com), August 20, 1999.

Mike.....

They have been working on this problem for over two weeks and the prime suspect is a leaky distribution pipe that has yet to be isolated. I have heard or read nothing that would point towards a computer generated problem. This is another example of the aged municipal infrastructure systems in this country. FOF is the way of the world.

-- For (your@info.com), August 20, 1999.


Mike, I grew up in LA and remember swimming being prohibited a lot at Huntington Beach. Supposedly (this was in the 50s and 60s) the sewer pipe just went a long way out into the bay and dumped. If the currents were right, they'd close the beach. The surfers used to talk about what they saw floating by them at the Ventura County line. Ick.

So, my best guess although I am waaaaay inland now, is that no, this is business as usual.

Since my city is on the Navy Cities at Risk list for sewage treatment failure, yes, I WILL blame y2k if my toilet backs up into the house after rollover...

-mommacares, off to research outhouses and composting toilets

-- mommacarestx (harringtondesignX@earthlink.net), August 20, 1999.


Things do go wrong, even with computers in 1999, that have absolutely nothing whatever to do with Y2K.

-- Lane Core Jr. (elcore@sgi.net), August 20, 1999.

Everyone is so quick to dismiss y2k testing as causing problems. It could possibly not be y2k testing related but then again it could. After the L.A. y2k testing related sewer problem there has been a clamp put on the media from Big money and the power people to not broadcast anymore y2k related enviormental mishaps.

We are in the End game like it or not. And no I am not paranoid. Y2k will cause serious enviornmental consequences. Since we dont have freedom of the press watching out for our safety anymore,we have to be the eyes and ears for others when we catch info that may be related. The internet may shut down some time soon if the powers to be get to spooked. A free press and speech and God is all we have as our guardian against tyranny. What happened in germany in the 1930's could happen here. The powers that are calling the shots in Washington have trashed our consititutional rights. Only concerned freedom loving americans keeping an eye on them, and holding them accountable to do the right thing will keep our country from becoming extinct. Im sure right now that there are already 100,s of y2k testing related environmental mishaps that are being keeped hush -hush because of that new EO the president put in effect just recently. Will the next three mile island incident get press coverage or blackout if it is y2k related. We who are aware of what is going down related to y2k have to be the salt and light for others who are becoming aware.

-- y2k aware mike (y2k aware mike @ conservation . com), August 20, 1999.



Nothing new -- happens all the time. Too many people breeding without any more thought of consequences than cats, dogs, rats. Their shit's gotta go somewhere, and local governments are hard pressed to keep up with the "demand" for processing capability.

Shit happens.

-- A (A@AisA.com), August 21, 1999.


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