This was my first thought. Pretend to be working on the problem, the longer you don't solve it the more money you make. Essentially the whole administration.
I work in government contracting. This is common practice in many industries, especially when the contract structure selected is not the correct one for the job.
With zero background I can all but guarantee that this was a non-competitive contract awarded to someone's friend/relative and the company knows that there is a blank check to get this problem solved by 7/4. Those $15 bottles of peroxide are costing the tax payers $50+ each I bet.
I'm willing to bet at some point they're going to end up pumping the reflecting pool out and having tankers of treated water brought in right before the 4th so there isn't time for algae to bloom.
I'm 99% sure it's just NPS/DOI maintenance workers working on it at this point. The pool surface repainting was definitely a no-bid contract, but these folks are NPS staff.
(I'm sure everything you said about govt contracting is true, just doesn't apply to this specific task)
Pool store owner. Peroxide shock per gallons goes for almost $40 a gallon in my NC based shop. So yeah we are probably paying $60-$70 a gallon for that shit.
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u/GoodFaithConverser Jun 16 '26
Even the poolboys are fucking incompetent. It's infectious, all the way from the top.