How can you do that without having the dam thoroughly inspected by engineering staff, without having a thorough analysis and education of the staff on what all the rules and regulations are?. It is certainly a responsibility the city should not bear, or bear alone.
The city, as an accommodation to the county and to some degree so that it would be done and done properly, has been using local personnel to raise and lower the dam and to point out major problem to the county and get it fixed.