Engineer A Tidal Hydraulic Capacity Upgrade Third-Party Flood Impact Assessment Tidal Crossing
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/88#Engineer_A_Tidal_Hydraulic_Capacity_Upgrade_Third-Party_Flood_Impact_Assessment_Tidal_Crossing
Properties
Instance of
TidalHydraulicCapacityUpgradeThird-PartyFloodImpactAssessmentObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#TidalHydraulicCapacityUpgradeThird-PartyFloodImpactAssessmentObligation
Case context
The upgrade from culvert to bridge increases hydraulic capacity, which Engineer A's professional judgment indicates will materially accelerate flood risk and uninhabitability for twenty upstream homes — a third-party impact not addressed by the local 25-year storm standard.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A is obligated to assess and disclose the potential upstream flood impacts of the culvert-to-bridge upgrade — which materially increases the tidal crossing's hydraulic capacity — on the twenty upstream homes, including the risk of accelerated uninhabitability due to increased tidal and storm surge penetration, even though such assessment is not explicitly required by local development regulations.
Temporal scope
During the design phase and before submission of permit applications
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Third-Party Flood Risk Notification Invoked By Engineer A Upstream Homes
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A's scope includes design and local permitting of the roadway, including an upgrade of the tidal crossing from a small culvert to a small bridge, increasing its hydraulic capacity.
Text references
Engineer A's scope includes design and local permitting of the roadway, including an upgrade of the tidal crossing from a small culvert to a small bridge, increasing its hydraulic capacity.
It is Engineer A's judgment, based on hydraulic evaluation procedures presented at a recent transportation agency conference, that the proposed project may result in some upstream homes becoming uninhabitable a decade or more earlier than would otherwise be the case.
TTL
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proeth:casecontext "The upgrade from culvert to bridge increases hydraulic capacity, which Engineer A's professional judgment indicates will materially accelerate flood risk and uninhabitability for twenty upstream homes — a third-party impact not addressed by the local 25-year storm standard." ;
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proeth:importance "high" ;
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proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A is obligated to assess and disclose the potential upstream flood impacts of the culvert-to-bridge upgrade — which materially increases the tidal crossing's hydraulic capacity — on the twenty upstream homes, including the risk of accelerated uninhabitability due to increased tidal and storm surge penetration, even though such assessment is not explicitly required by local development regulations." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A's scope includes design and local permitting of the roadway, including an upgrade of the tidal crossing from a small culvert to a small bridge, increasing its hydraulic capacity." ;
proeth:temporalscope "During the design phase and before submission of permit applications" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A's scope includes design and local permitting of the roadway, including an upgrade of the tidal crossing from a small culvert to a small bridge, increasing its hydraulic capacity.",
"It is Engineer A's judgment, based on hydraulic evaluation procedures presented at a recent transportation agency conference, that the proposed project may result in some upstream homes becoming uninhabitable a decade or more earlier than would otherwise be the case." ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
88
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-27T14:13:00.331319+00:00
First case
88
Generated
2026-02-27T14:13:00.331319+00:00
Attributed to
Case 88 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T10:32:26.858338
Generated by
ProEthica Case 88 Extraction