Volume I · The DispatchesCloverdale, Sonoma County266 Acres · Asti Road
Ground Truth
A documentary record of the 266-acre Masonite wood-treatment and former Louisiana-Pacific mill site south of Cloverdale — what was made here, what still lies in the ground, and what is now proposed to be built over it.
Compiled · Spring 2026
Nineteen dispatches make up this record. The first fourteen set down what the public documents say; the last five let you see the ground itself. Start anywhere — but if you read only one, read the chronicle.
The Monitoring RecordSix views of the groundwater data the state collected for about two decades—then stopped: the sampling timeline, the exceedances, how deep it sits, and what the closure left unmeasured.groundtruth.watch/record
The Oak TreeA response to the June 2026 San Francisco Chronicle profile of the project—what the piece didn’t ask, answered from the regulatory record.groundtruth.watch/oaktree
The Scale of It605 homes and 200 hotel rooms, set against every other residential project in Cloverdale’s modern planning record.groundtruth.watch/scale
The CovenantA covenant is only as good as the memory of it—a thought experiment in how a recorded deed restriction fails by forgetting, not by breach.groundtruth.watch/forgetting
The Risk ThresholdWhat a cancer-risk threshold counts, who sets it, and what the Esmeralda plan asks to change about the one adopted in 2009—with two tools you can move by hand.groundtruth.watch/threshold
The DriftFour places where the Esmeralda entitlement no longer matches the record it cites—the covenant’s bars, the adopted risk standard, the legal baseline, the regulator’s name. Different documents, different years; the motion runs one way.groundtruth.watch/drift
II · On the ground
What the parcel shows
The WellsAn interactive map of the 45 monitoring wells, their contamination readings, and the two wells destroyed weeks before the case closed.groundtruth.watch/destroyed