C-004 · Sample
Public Case Docket
This is what an accepted case becomes. One example below.
Case Name
The River That Was Allowed to Die
Location
The creek behind the industrial park, name on file
Affected Group
Everyone downstream; the children told not to touch the water; everything that used to drink from it
Problem Summary
Decades of legally permitted runoff have turned a living river toxic. The fish are gone. The smell arrives before the water does. Every discharge was, on paper, allowed.
Why It Is Unclaimed
The river runs between jurisdictions and through none of their budgets. Every office holds a permit that says someone else is watching.
Known Responsibility Loop
The factory says its discharge is within permit.
The permit office says enforcement belongs to the state.
The state says the waterway is the county's to monitor.
The county says it has no budget to test.
The fish say nothing because the fish are gone.
Evidence
Water samples across three seasons, photographs of the fish kill, and the permits themselves. (Filed under E-002.)
What Would Count As Movement
One independent water test with a result made public. One named office accepting the duty to monitor.
Next Pelican Action
Compile the permit chain into a one-page document and mail it, by name, to every office in the loop.
Have a problem that belongs here? Start with P-001.