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Originally Posted by jchief
Someone please educate me. I thought I saw a sign on the weirs that it is owned by Cameron Parish something or other??
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Ownership of public works projects after they are built, destroyed by a disaster, and then repaired is a complex legal question, especially when the project spans a navigable waterway.
Ownership of the structure may also be different from management authority which appears to have been delegated several times to a contractor.
As far as I can tell, the process of applying the right kinds of pressure to the contractor actually controlling the switches to better align openings and closings with scientific data, the goals of the weirs, and the desires of the public is much more involved than figuring out who owns the structure.
I expect the contract is designed to insulate the contractor from demands of the public, is vague about the actual management plans, and specifies a government party to oversee the operation in a manner to obfuscate and frustrate accountability to the public or to scientific principles of operation.
And I bet both the contractor and the government overseers are proud of themselves for these arrangements.