Editorial and Source Standards

Official-first sourcing

Consequential local facts are sourced in a strict order of preference, and the earliest source that answers the question wins:

1. City, county, and state agencies. The City of Huntsville, the City of Madison, Madison County, and Alabama state agencies are the first authority for local rules, thresholds, agency phone numbers, and reporting channels.
2. Statutes and codes. Where a rule traces to law, the statute or code section is cited directly rather than paraphrased from a secondary summary.
3. National cost guides. Only after official sources are exhausted, and only for cost context, are national cost guides used — always labeled as national reference figures, never as Huntsville quotes.

Verification dating

Consequential factual claims carry a visible CHECKED date showing when the claim was last reviewed against its cited source. Update a claim and its checked date together. Do not advance a date solely because the site was deployed, reformatted, or given a non-substantive edit.

The stamp records the last source review for the consequential factual claims on that page; it is not a promise that nothing can change. Rules, contacts, fees, and published figures are re-reviewed against their sources before the date advances.

The evidence ledger

Local numeric facts — fees, dimensions, thresholds, agency phone numbers, code sections, and cost figures — may only appear on this site when they are recorded in an internal evidence ledger. Each ledger record stores the exact claim, the source title, the source URL, the date it was retrieved, and the date it was last reviewed. When a page states such a fact, it links to that record's source so a reader can verify it at the origin. If a fact is not in the ledger with a supporting source, it does not get published.

AI-assistance disclosure

Drafting on this site is assisted by AI tools. That assistance is used for wording and structure — not for sourcing facts. Every consequential local fact is human-verified against the cited source before publication. AI output is never treated as a source, and a number that an AI tool produces without a verifiable origin is not published.

Correction policy

If a fact is wrong, the fastest fix is to tell us. Email contact@huntsvilleyarddrainage.com with the page and the specific claim. Each report is checked against the cited source; when the source supports a change, the page is corrected and its review date advanced. When a claim cannot be supported by a reliable source, it is removed rather than left standing.

Claims this site refuses to publish

• Fabricated reviews or testimonials. There are none on this site, and none will be invented.
• Invented local prices. Huntsville pricing is confirmed by a provider for a specific property; national figures are labeled as national reference data.
• False credentials. No claims of licenses, insurance, or credentials the publisher does not hold — the publisher is not a contractor.
• Availability promises. No claims about response windows or schedules. Only a provider can confirm availability.

More about who publishes this site is on the about page, and the commercial arrangement is on the service-request disclosure.