South Howard accountability case study

South Howard has flooded again and again, and residents there have every reason to be skeptical of new plans — they've lived through the promises and the standing water. Before asking anyone to trust the Flood Resilience Operating System, the administration should prove it works on the street that has suffered the most.

Run South Howard as a full public accountability case study: document the flooding history, diagnose the causes with verified data, apply the operating system's tools — baseline, scorecard, ranked projects — and publish every step. Let South Howard be the proof point: if the system can earn trust there, it can earn it anywhere.

Stormwater Engineering. Executive Action: Departmental engineering authority to conduct and publish the case study, with Council and regulatory dependencies for any capital response it recommends.

Published flooding history and diagnosis for South Howard; Basin scorecard and ranked project list for the corridor; Capital projects delivered in sequence; Measured flood outcomes reported against the published baseline

Year One: Scoped pilot with published stage labels, then evaluate before any scale decision.