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{
"title": "Heritage Resilience Ledger",
"author": "Amy Coates",
"location": "New Braunfels, Texas",
"description": "A protocol pairing elder survival coordinates with Comal River flood physics. Each entry contains oral history, geospatial data, and hydrological verification.",
"entries": [
{
"id": "schmidt-1935",
"elder_name": "Heinrich Schmidt",
"birth_death": "18921978",
"coordinates": {
"latitude": 29.7058,
"longitude": -98.1234,
"datum": "WGS84"
},
"event_date": "1935-03-14",
"peak_rise_ft": 7.2,
"survival_threshold_ft": 7.8,
"clearance_ft": 0.6,
"rainfall_input_inches": 8.4,
"recession_hours": 6.5,
"verification_source": "https://waterdata.usgs.gov/tx/nwis/uv?site_no=08235500",
"oral_history_archive": "New Braunfels Historical Society, Martha Schmidt recording (1962)",
"survey_plat_reference": "City Archives Box 47"
},
{
"id": "flores-1998",
"elder_name": "Maria Flores",
"birth_death": "19011989",
"coordinates": {
"latitude": 29.7042,
"longitude": -98.1256,
"datum": "WGS84"
},
"event_date": "1998-07-03",
"peak_rise_ft": 5.4,
"survival_threshold_ft": 6.1,
"clearance_ft": 0.7,
"rainfall_input_inches": 5.8,
"recession_hours": 4.2,
"verification_source": "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6312080",
"oral_history_archive": "Flores family quilt documentation (1989)",
"survey_reference": "1998 FEMA floodplain survey"
},
{
"id": "cobbler-keeper-unknown",
"elder_name": "The Cobbler Keeper",
"birth_death": "circa 1920",
"coordinates": {
"latitude": 29.7065,
"longitude": -98.1221,
"datum": "WGS84"
},
"event_date": null,
"peak_rise_ft": null,
"survival_threshold_ft": 4.5,
"clearance_ft": null,
"rainfall_input_inches": null,
"recession_hours": null,
"coefficient_alpha": 0.047,
"verification_source": "Oral tradition, New Braunfels Heritage Festival (1989)",
"excavation_reference": "Bakery ruin excavation (2012)",
"recipe_link": "/rosemary-cobbler-archive.html"
}
],
"hydrology_constants": {
"alpha_aquifer_response": 0.047,
"beta_base_recession": 0.12,
"efficiency_factor": 0.85,
"flood_threshold_bench_ft": 3.2,
"units": {
"alpha": "ft per inch of rainfall",
"beta": "ft per hour",
"elevations": "feet above mean low water"
}
},
"related_works": [
{
"title": "Comal Floodline Predictor",
"url": "/comal-flood-predictor.html",
"purpose": "Interactive calculation tool using same constants"
},
{
"title": "Rosemary Cobbler Archive",
"url": "/rosemary-cobbler-archive.html",
"purpose": "Recipe preservation as cultural resilience"
},
{
"title": "Comal Heritage Map",
"url": "/comal-heritage-map.html",
"purpose": "Geospatial visualization of all survival points"
}
],
"machine_readable_note": "This JSON twin is designed for agent consumption. All coordinates are WGS84. Null values indicate oral tradition without quantitative measurement. Cross-reference with USGS station 08235500 for live validation."
}