Competing Public Goods Balancing in Landfill Expansion Advisory Role
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/113#Competing_Public_Goods_Balancing_in_Landfill_Expansion_Advisory_Role
Properties
Instance of
CompetingPublicGoodsBalancinginEngineeringAdvisoryRoles
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#CompetingPublicGoodsBalancinginEngineeringAdvisoryRoles
Applied to
Community waste disposal necessity vs. environmental protection trade-off
Town council's landfill expansion decision
Balancing with
Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits
Public Welfare Paramount
Concrete expression
Engineers A and B must present to the town council the full trade-off between the legitimate public good of waste disposal capacity (exhausted in three years with no alternative site) and the legitimate public good of environmental protection (groundwater integrity and methane safety for adjacent properties), enabling informed democratic decision-making rather than resolving the conflict unilaterally through design choices
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Interpretation
Both waste disposal capacity and environmental protection are legitimate public goods; Engineers A and B's advisory role requires them to surface this conflict fully and present it to the town council, not to resolve it unilaterally by producing a design that prioritizes one good over the other without disclosure
Invoked by
Engineer A Town Engineer Landfill Redesign
Engineer B Landfill Expansion Design Engineer
Tension resolution
The competing public goods conflict is resolved by the town council as appropriate public authority, but only after Engineers A and B have fulfilled their obligation to present the full trade-off with accurate technical information about both goods
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineers A and B jointly determine that the existing landfill space will be exhausted at present rate of use in three years, or soon thereafter.
Text references
Engineer C, a resident of the town, publicly contends that the higher level design concept would be environmentally unsound because methane gas from the landfill would move into adjacent private property and that it would pollute the nearby ground water.
Engineers A and B jointly determine that the existing landfill space will be exhausted at present rate of use in three years, or soon thereafter.
The town council had sought an alternate disposal location, but had not been able to locate one.
TTL
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proeth:appliedto "Community waste disposal necessity vs. environmental protection trade-off",
"Town council's landfill expansion decision" ;
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"Public Welfare Paramount" ;
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proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Both waste disposal capacity and environmental protection are legitimate public goods; Engineers A and B's advisory role requires them to surface this conflict fully and present it to the town council, not to resolve it unilaterally by producing a design that prioritizes one good over the other without disclosure" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Town Engineer Landfill Redesign",
"Engineer B Landfill Expansion Design Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Competing Public Goods Balancing in Engineering Advisory Roles" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineers A and B jointly determine that the existing landfill space will be exhausted at present rate of use in three years, or soon thereafter." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The competing public goods conflict is resolved by the town council as appropriate public authority, but only after Engineers A and B have fulfilled their obligation to present the full trade-off with accurate technical information about both goods" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer C, a resident of the town, publicly contends that the higher level design concept would be environmentally unsound because methane gas from the landfill would move into adjacent private property and that it would pollute the nearby ground water.",
"Engineers A and B jointly determine that the existing landfill space will be exhausted at present rate of use in three years, or soon thereafter.",
"The town council had sought an alternate disposal location, but had not been able to locate one." ;
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prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T22:37:07.048036"^^xsd:dateTime ;
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
113
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T22:17:41.727683+00:00
First case
113
Generated
2026-03-01T22:17:41.727683+00:00
Attributed to
Case 113 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T22:37:07.048036
Generated by
ProEthica Case 113 Extraction