You need to keep those talented resources available. You're not going to have time to bring them up. It requires overtime pay for all nonexempt workers who put in more than eight hours on any given day. At the R.B. Diemer water distribution plant, commanding the hilltops over Yorba Linda, manager Bill Cooper is among those working New Year's Eve. He's called in 14 extra staffers who normally wouldn't be at the plant.
Cooper plans to provide food and millennium T-shirts.
The Diemer plant, part of the Metropolitan Water District, provides about 50 percent of Orange County's potable water. We think all of our systems are going to hold up. But we don't know for sure that the power grid will stay up. Eric Trapp, head of Y2K planning for Edison International, says he's confident a major power outage will not occur. Edison provides electrical power to 11 million Californians spread over 50,000 square miles.