Engineer A Public Hearing Testimony Completeness Upstream Flood Risk
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/88#Engineer_A_Public_Hearing_Testimony_Completeness_Upstream_Flood_Risk
Properties
Instance of
PublicHearingTestimonyCompletenessObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PublicHearingTestimonyCompletenessObligation
Case context
Engineer A anticipated that the upstream flood risk question would be a difficult question to answer in the project's public hearings, and Client B directed Engineer A to forgo the specialized analysis needed to answer it.
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.83
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated, when providing engineering input at the public regulatory hearing for the tidal crossing upgrade, to address completely the upstream flood risk to the twenty homes — including the preliminary professional judgment about accelerated uninhabitability — and to either explain how the risk has been evaluated and addressed or to offer to conduct the specialized hydraulic analysis, rather than redirecting conversation away from the upstream risk issue.
Temporal scope
During public regulatory hearings for the tidal crossing upgrade permitting
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Proactive Risk Disclosure Invoked for Climate-Driven Flood Impacts
Source Evidence
Source text
anticipating this to be a difficult question to answer in the project's public hearings
Text references
Client B directs Engineer A to proceed without the costly analysis unless and until such an analysis is requested by the applicable regulatory authorities.
anticipating this to be a difficult question to answer in the project's public hearings
TTL
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proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
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proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
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proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Public Hearing Testimony Completeness Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated, when providing engineering input at the public regulatory hearing for the tidal crossing upgrade, to address completely the upstream flood risk to the twenty homes — including the preliminary professional judgment about accelerated uninhabitability — and to either explain how the risk has been evaluated and addressed or to offer to conduct the specialized hydraulic analysis, rather than redirecting conversation away from the upstream risk issue." ;
proeth:sourcetext "anticipating this to be a difficult question to answer in the project's public hearings" ;
proeth:temporalscope "During public regulatory hearings for the tidal crossing upgrade permitting" ;
proeth:textreferences "Client B directs Engineer A to proceed without the costly analysis unless and until such an analysis is requested by the applicable regulatory authorities.",
"anticipating this to be a difficult question to answer in the project's public hearings" ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
88
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-26T00:15:23.499283+00:00
First case
88
Generated
2026-02-26T00:15:23.499283+00:00
Attributed to
Case 88 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-26T00:31:11.065231
Generated by
ProEthica Case 88 Extraction