Since their work also involves educating the public on Y2K, conference participants discussed how to increase community awareness through outreach. Municipalities that haven't done much planning tend to be from rural municipalities that don't rely heavily on computers and electronics, according to Schweiker. For instance, in Sankertown Borough, near Ebensburg in Cambria County, officials haven't conducted any tests. We're going to send them letters and let them know what we will do to help take care of this problem. Other townships and county governments are more involved with planning for Y2K. Clearfield County has kept on top of testing and revising its hardware and software, but still needs to search for embedded chips in its systems.
Computers run the pumping system.
Ferguson Township is getting to the point now where its about to do the assessment, inventory, remediation and testing. We have to look at how we provide for both the elderly and the very young if we have an outage for a few days. We're hoping we don't. Solve the Y2K problem. There is no time to waste.