The Memory Vote

Nature of event: Flood, residential

Date of event: 3-9 August 1983

Duration: 6 days

Cause: Extended rainfall; overflow from Kasel canal; inadequate drainage infrastructure (subsequently upgraded 1987)

Properties directly affected: All 52 residential households in the Kasel neighborhood boundary

Fatalities: 9

Years elapsed since event: 43

Requesting households: 37 of 52 (71.2%)

Threshold required: 60%

Threshold met: Yes

Community impact statement (summary): The event of 1983 persists in the neighborhood's collective record. Annual commemorations ceased in 2017. A majority of current residents were not present at the time of the event and have no firsthand relationship to it. The requesting parties state that the continued presence of the collective memory functions as residue without active purpose. They are not requesting modification of personal memory or the municipal historical archive. They are requesting removal of the event from the community's active collective record, as provided under Article 14(c) of the Collective Memory Governance Act.

As listed in the petition register. 12 current Kasel residents who were present during the 1983 event are identified as directly affected living parties. All 12 are among the 37 signing households. Consent confirmed.

[This field is not applicable to Type 3 petitions. Deceased parties are not eligible to participate in community erasure processes. For questions regarding deceased parties and collective memory records, contact the Historical Archive Division.]

In Favor: 6   Opposed: 1   Abstained: 0

Outcome: Erasure approved. Six-month review window begins upon notification to requesting households. Erasure takes effect upon window close absent appeal.

"The collective memory of an event does not belong only to the living.", Committee Member N., dissenting (minority opinion, non-binding, appended to record per standard procedure)