L.A. supposedly spent $35MM on plastic shade balls to dump in the drinking water. Having trouble finding where the money went.

Around 2014, millions of black plastic balls were dumped into major L.A. drinking water—supposedly to prevent cancer from forming in the water. I'm not joking. The odd, suspicious, and shady part of it all is that they spent over $30,000,000 on this (equivalent to $50 million today). And when we examine the LLCs and the names behind the project, there appear to be major anomalies. For example, some of the photos seem fake or edited, the names are from out of state, and it gets even worse. Take a look here: https://pastebin.com/DGPrMZtv

Also, there was a sub reddit for this topic, and it was mysteriously deleted. It had several hundred posts and users.