Engineer A Interdisciplinary Competence Threshold Recognition Tidal Crossing
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/88#Engineer_A_Interdisciplinary_Competence_Threshold_Recognition_Tidal_Crossing
Properties
Instance of
InterdisciplinaryCompetenceThresholdRecognitionforSpecializedReferralObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#InterdisciplinaryCompetenceThresholdRecognitionforSpecializedReferralObligation
Case context
Engineer A is designing a roadway upgrade including a culvert-to-bridge tidal crossing upgrade in a tidal saltmarsh; the upgrade will materially increase hydraulic capacity with potential upstream flood impacts on twenty homes.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to maintain sufficient understanding of hydrology, hydraulics, and coastal modeling to recognize that the tidal crossing upgrade raised technical questions about upstream flood impacts that merited detailed specialized evaluation, even though Engineer A is not a modeling expert.
Temporal scope
At the time of project assessment and throughout the design engagement
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Interdisciplinary Competence Threshold Invoked for Hydraulic Modeling Recognition
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A need not necessarily be a modelling expert. However, Engineer A needs to have sufficient understanding of hydrology, hydraulics, and coastal modeling to form a reasonable judgment that there is sufficient potential for flooding of other properties to merit a detailed, complex evaluation of future conditions.
Text references
Based on the facts in this case, it is clear that Engineer A has such an understanding of the broad project issues.
Engineer A need not necessarily be a modelling expert. However, Engineer A needs to have sufficient understanding of hydrology, hydraulics, and coastal modeling to form a reasonable judgment that there is sufficient potential for flooding of other properties to merit a detailed, complex evaluation of future conditions.
TTL
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proeth:casecontext "Engineer A is designing a roadway upgrade including a culvert-to-bridge tidal crossing upgrade in a tidal saltmarsh; the upgrade will materially increase hydraulic capacity with potential upstream flood impacts on twenty homes." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
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proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
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proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "88" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-27T14:21:57.794732+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Interdisciplinary Competence Threshold Recognition for Specialized Referral Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to maintain sufficient understanding of hydrology, hydraulics, and coastal modeling to recognize that the tidal crossing upgrade raised technical questions about upstream flood impacts that merited detailed specialized evaluation, even though Engineer A is not a modeling expert." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A need not necessarily be a modelling expert. However, Engineer A needs to have sufficient understanding of hydrology, hydraulics, and coastal modeling to form a reasonable judgment that there is sufficient potential for flooding of other properties to merit a detailed, complex evaluation of future conditions." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of project assessment and throughout the design engagement" ;
proeth:textreferences "Based on the facts in this case, it is clear that Engineer A has such an understanding of the broad project issues.",
"Engineer A need not necessarily be a modelling expert. However, Engineer A needs to have sufficient understanding of hydrology, hydraulics, and coastal modeling to form a reasonable judgment that there is sufficient potential for flooding of other properties to merit a detailed, complex evaluation of future conditions." ;
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
88
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-27T14:21:57.794732+00:00
First case
88
Generated
2026-02-27T14:21:57.794732+00:00
Attributed to
Case 88 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T10:32:26.864240
Generated by
ProEthica Case 88 Extraction