http://www.charlotte.com/observer/business/pub/well1113.htm "CAROLINA HOSPITAL DIGS OWN WATER WELL FOR Y2K BACKUP"

(Charlotte Observer)

Taking backup measures seriously:

Under the strategy "you can't be too careful," Carolinas Medical Center has dug two wells to serve as backups for its city water supply.

The hospital is one of the biggest users of water in the Charlotte area, using 300,000 gallons a day (per-capita use is about 70 gallons a day in North Carolina). It needs water for heating, air conditioning, laundry and medical procedures. Kidney dialysis, for example, requires a lot of water, hospital spokesman Scott White said.

The hospital isn't expecting any problems with the city water system when the millennium kicks in. But it made sense to have a backup, White said.

If there were any complications, Y2K or otherwise, we can get it," he said.

The story points out that another area hospital will not dig well, but instead rely on a long-standing contingency plan.

-- claurann (claurann@aol.com), November 16, 1999