Was it a Tall Tale that split Mira Bay?

Did the engineering firm mislead the courts that resulted in the resident split  in Mira Bay ??

The representatives of Mira Bay (CDD) learned the seawalls were failing due to the improper installation and inferior materials.

They hired attorneys to sue for damages to repair the seawall so the residents would not have to pay for it.  Money was spent on engineering firms who came back with bulkhead revetment requirements to fix the seawall for longevity at a cost around $28 Million dollars. There are volumes and over 700 Megabits of information (actually not technically a lot but it is since they are all just word and pdf docs) backing all of this up.  There is a power point presentation summarizing the extensive engineering from several disciplines the district hired.

The Defense hires an engineering firm who testified under oath that the solution was Rip rap to stabilize the walls, there is barely any engineering information provided to the courts on this, but apparently it was enough to cause the case to drag out. This rip rap claim helped lead to the CDD attorneys to advise the district was it was probably best to take a settlement. A settlement that would never be enough money to fix it all.

Then the big mistake was made, the district hired the same engineering firm that said rip rap would work for our canals.

Fast forward to the current board, this engineering firm then asked us to do a rip rap test site.

WHY???

Did they not testify under oath that rip rap would work?  If So, why do you need a test site if you testified the rip rap will work, one could surmise because they did not know it would work, so did they mislead the court by offering an opinion (they were paid to do) for the defense attorneys who were against Mira Bay residents collecting the money they needed to fix the walls properly?

So this engineering firm convinces the CDD board with a bunch of documents and studies to do a rip rap test site.  I put to you, the residents, the reason they needed this test site is because of their testimony, they were stuck that they told the courts rip rap would work and thus had to prove rip rap would work or their testimony would be impeached.

So they build the rip rap test site, the EPC comes in and find many deficiencies including the major issue that the slope was not correct.

So if the engineering firm that testified under oath rip said rap would work in our canals;

How come they did not know about using the proper rock size?

How come they did not know that the slope could not be physically be done correctly?

One can surmise they did not really know that rip rap would ever work in our canals, and they were merely counting on the fact that their testimony to the courts would never be proven right or wrong, ….but once they had to produce, they were exposed by the Gov’t agency EPC; thus they packed up and ran out of here as fast as they could because the rip rap was a failure.

So here we are:

Mira Bay divided by what apparently and ultimately to be a falsehood perpetrated by a paid for engineering firm testimony opinion.

Our anger at each other is misplaced, it should be at that firm not each other,

I wonder if the case could be reopened since their testimony by their own failed rip rap site has been impeached?

(note:)

Several other engineering firms contacted had said rip rap will not work for our canals, including:

Tampa Bay Marine, Orion Marine, Foundation Masters, Land & Sea Masters, Marine Cont Grp.)