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by fl0ps 1199 days ago
I'm of the opinion that officials who declare a site is "safe for habitation" or whatever it was termed originally should personally guarentee this by habitating onsite for at least 3 months thereafter, drinking and bathing in the local water, visiting the outdoors locations, and so forth.
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Absolutely, like the (apocryphal?) accounts of Roman engineers being made to stand under their bridges while the wood scaffolding was removed.