Editorial Standards

Cost or decision direction

The editorial rules directly affect cost content by forcing wide bands, clearer modifiers, and less false confidence.

What SewerClarity will publish

The site is intentionally narrow. It publishes pages that help a buyer, seller, or owner make a real next-step decision.

• Buyer-under-contract, defect-interpretation, cost-band, and responsibility-support topics are in scope.
• Pages need a clear decision angle, not just generic plumbing traffic potential.
• Local pages need a real local signal such as housing age, utility boundary, system context, or program caveat.
• Trust pages are treated as conversion support, not filler.

What SewerClarity will not claim

The site is designed to reduce panic and false certainty at the same time.

• No fake diagnosis without inspection-grade evidence.
• No claim that a seller must pay, a buyer is owed a credit, or the city is automatically responsible.
• No assumption that sewer-line insurance or service-line coverage is standard or guaranteed.
• No invented licenses, institutions, or reviewer credentials.

If a question needs legal, insurance, or property-specific confirmation, the page should say so directly.

How pages are reviewed and refreshed

Different source classes carry different weight, and the site is explicit about that.

• Official utility, city, insurer, and program pages outrank broad publisher summaries when responsibility or coverage is involved.
• Broad cost publishers are used as market sanity checks, not as the only authority.
• Every page carries a review date, source note, and methodology path.
• Pages are meant to be tightened when new evidence, better local sources, or live search data show a better framing.

How corrections work

A trust-first site should make it obvious how to challenge a claim or ask for a correction.

• Use the contact address shown on the site if a source is outdated, broken, or materially misread.
• Include the page URL, the claim in question, and the better source if you have one.
• SewerClarity can revise or clarify pages without pretending every situation fits one national answer.
• Correction requests are part of product maintenance, not an afterthought.

What commonly changes the answer

• No fake certainty is a publishing rule, not just a writing preference.
• Local pages need a genuine local angle before they go live.

Questions to ask next

1. Does this page help a real next-step decision, or just chase a keyword?
2. Would this wording still feel honest if a buyer forwarded it to an agent or seller?

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