Engineers A and B BER 79-2 Landfill Environmental Trade-Off Case-By-Case Judgment
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/94#Engineers_A_and_B_BER_79-2_Landfill_Environmental_Trade-Off_Case-By-Case_Judgment
Properties
Instance of
ProfessionalJudgmentEnvironmentalTrade-OffFinalArbiterObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ProfessionalJudgmentEnvironmentalTrade-OffFinalArbiterObligation
Case context
BER Case No. 79-2: Engineers A and B collaborated on multiple redesigns of a sanitary landfill to higher final contours, balancing environmental concerns against the town's need for waste disposal capacity after no alternative site could be found.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A (town engineer) and Engineer B (consulting engineer) in BER 79-2
Obligation statement
Engineers A and B were obligated to apply case-by-case professional judgment to the landfill expansion design, balancing the town's need for waste disposal capacity against environmental concerns including methane migration and groundwater pollution, recognizing that no finite answer exists to such trade-offs and that professional judgment is the final arbiter of the best balance.
Temporal scope
Throughout the design and redesign process for the landfill expansion
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
BER 79-2 Competing Environmental and Infrastructure Goods
derivedFromPrinciple
Professional Judgment as Environmental Trade-Off Arbiter — BER 79-2 Landfill
Source Evidence
Source text
there is no finite answer to the balance or 'trade-off' which is involved in the overall concerns about environmental dangers for particular projects
Text references
certainly Engineers A and B should consider the technical data each project requires a case-by-case analysis and judgment
professional judgment will be the final arbiter of the best balance between society's needs for certain facilities and the level of environmental degradation which may be unavoidable in filling those basic needs
there is no finite answer to the balance or 'trade-off' which is involved in the overall concerns about environmental dangers for particular projects
TTL
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proeth:obligationstatement "Engineers A and B were obligated to apply case-by-case professional judgment to the landfill expansion design, balancing the town's need for waste disposal capacity against environmental concerns including methane migration and groundwater pollution, recognizing that no finite answer exists to such trade-offs and that professional judgment is the final arbiter of the best balance." ;
proeth:sourcetext "there is no finite answer to the balance or 'trade-off' which is involved in the overall concerns about environmental dangers for particular projects" ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the design and redesign process for the landfill expansion" ;
proeth:textreferences "certainly Engineers A and B should consider the technical data each project requires a case-by-case analysis and judgment",
"professional judgment will be the final arbiter of the best balance between society's needs for certain facilities and the level of environmental degradation which may be unavoidable in filling those basic needs",
"there is no finite answer to the balance or 'trade-off' which is involved in the overall concerns about environmental dangers for particular projects" ;
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
94
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T20:47:23.287524+00:00
First case
94
Generated
2026-02-28T20:47:23.287524+00:00
Attributed to
Case 94 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T20:55:42.371873
Generated by
ProEthica Case 94 Extraction