A decision on the outer grove water pact should be judged at the boundary spring at Alder Pass, where the rule changes an ordinary route, shift or service. Compare this season’s measurement with the living site and the people who steward it. The current file is the Year fifth, canopy height window 3 review, not a permanent settlement of every future case.
The the pact, spring marks and the field notes kept by both circles lists 19 draws recorded with both spring and downstream marks; the previous window lists 25. Thalen Moss checked both against dated copies from both parties compared with the work completed at the site. The difference matters because how to divide a shared source when measurements are taken at different points in a rainfall cycle.
Upper stewards rely on the spring reading. Lower households rely on the mark that reaches their cistern. Those objections deserve a clear answer. They are not a reason to keep an uncheckable rule simply because its wording is familiar.
A useful decision names who will do the work, which count will change and when the result comes back to the public table. In this case, the downstream mark lags when the upper spring is measured after rain.
The board recorded the outcome that it sent one separate question to a later public hearing without reopening this file.
