Field experiments can reconstruct past groundwater conditions for legal proof.

Evidence

Wells G and H were cleaned and oiled, and then started up for the first time in almost seven years. The test was designed to re-create groundwater conditions during the 1960s and 1970s, when the wells had pumped water into the city mains. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 1498

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Proving liability requires tracing contaminants through groundwater to their destination — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action , 994; Fresh groundwater lay patchy enough that campers had to test each new well. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 520; Desired conclusions retroactively validate whatever evidence seems to support them (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Government research into testing techniques can aid private voluntary compliance with law #corroborates (1.00) — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 1142
• Fresh groundwater lay patchy enough that campers had to test each new well. #expands (0.93) — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 520
• The panoptic prison’s methods of fixing and recording made examination-based human sciences possible. #qualifies (0.82) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 465
• Field experiments with 601 settlers tested compromise on land and right of return. #expands (0.75) — Scott Atran and Jeremy Ginges, Sacred Values and Cultural Conflict, 26
• Desired conclusions retroactively validate whatever evidence seems to support them #complicates (0.73)