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That may be the stupidest thing I've ever seen. 2 people to fill up a 5-gallon bucket 1l at a time, and 1 to walk it over to dump it out, all to drain probably a several-thousand-gallon puddle. On taxpayer dime, presumably.
Going ultra-low-tech, a fucking siphon through a hose would work way faster and probably be less expensive than the bucket + scooping sticks.
The saddest thing is that we basically have the academic equivalent of this already: x-studies programs in universities.
They are working with the level of effort and disinterest of a common government employee, so I can assume with great confidence that just like aforementioned common government employees they have zero interest in actually accomplishing the task.
Lel, they're dustpans.
That's a white-pill assumption.
My first guess was that they're some custom-made "water scooping tool" that has exactly one government-approved manufacturer and cost $500 each, and need replacing every year for "safety" reasons.
Are they? I thought they were plastic bags on sticks.