Sewer Project Brief

How every line in the brief is labelled

The brief groups by who said each thing rather than by topic. These are the labels it uses, and they print with the document.

You recorded this

You entered this yourself. It reflects what you noticed or what you were told, not a verified finding.

A contractor reportedly stated this

You recorded this as something a contractor said. SewerOwner has not confirmed it and cannot confirm it.

An inspector reportedly stated this

You recorded this as something an inspector said. SewerOwner has not confirmed it and cannot confirm it.

A municipality or utility reportedly stated this

You recorded this as something a municipality or utility said. Confirm anything that affects responsibility or permits directly with that office.

A document reports this

You recorded this as appearing in a document you hold. The document itself is the record, not this summary of it.

SewerOwner general information

General educational information from SewerOwner. It is not specific to your property and establishes nothing about it.

Source not recorded

The source of this information was not recorded.

Unknown

You do not know, and it is not recorded whether anyone has looked.

Not checked

Nobody has looked at this yet, so nothing follows from it.

Looked, did not observe

You looked and did not see it. That is a real observation about what you could see — it does not establish that the condition is absent everywhere in the line.

Not applicable

This does not apply to your situation, so it is not an open question.

What the brief always states about itself

These travel with the printed document. A brief carried into a meeting without them would be read as a set of findings, which is exactly what it is not.

• This is not an inspection report, a diagnosis, an engineering report, a certified assessment, a scope of work, or a professional finding.
• SewerOwner has not inspected this property and cannot establish the condition of any pipe.
• Nothing here establishes a cause for anything that was observed.
• Nothing here establishes who owns or is responsible for any part of the sewer system. That is set locally and varies.
• Statements attributed to a contractor, inspector, authority, or document are recorded as reported. SewerOwner has not verified any of them.
• An absence recorded here means nobody has looked, or nobody observed it where they looked. It does not mean the condition is absent.
• No score, grade, rating, or urgency measure appears anywhere in this document, because none could be produced honestly.

What the brief does that a notes app does not

• It keeps what you observed separate from what someone told you, on the page and in the print output.
• It keeps four kinds of absence distinct — unknown, not checked, looked and did not see, and not applicable — instead of collapsing them into a blank.
• It groups your open questions by who can actually answer them.
• It prints with the provenance legend and the limits attached, so nobody reads it as a set of findings.