diff --git a/R/lnk_log.R b/R/lnk_log.R
index 220454d7..f296e92f 100644
--- a/R/lnk_log.R
+++ b/R/lnk_log.R
@@ -136,16 +136,14 @@
       "bcfishobs.observations",
       "whse_fish.pscis_assessment_svw",
       "cabd.dams",
-      "fresh.modelled_stream_crossings",
-      "public.wsg_outlet"
+      "fresh.modelled_stream_crossings"
     ),
     source = c(
       rep(fwapg, 7L),
       "bcfishobs",
       "bcdata bc2pg",
       "CABD",
-      "snapshot_bcfp.sh <- bchamp objectstore",
-      "ad-hoc (link#227)"
+      "snapshot_bcfp.sh <- bchamp objectstore"
     ),
     stringsAsFactors = FALSE
   )
diff --git a/RUNBOOK.md b/RUNBOOK.md
index 5aa214c5..35b8a1dd 100644
--- a/RUNBOOK.md
+++ b/RUNBOOK.md
@@ -519,6 +519,43 @@ per-source-per-species column + `lnk_barriers_unify` change — not a tweak.
 
 ---
 
+## 8b. Drainage closure: never hand-roll it from ltree
+
+**Use `lnk_wsg_resolve(cfg, loaded, wsgs, conn = conn)`.** It delegates to
+`fresh::frs_wsg_drainage()` (fresh >= 0.33.0), which tests per-group outlet
+**points** (`blue_line_key` + `downstream_route_measure`) with the measure-aware
+`whse_basemapping.fwa_downstream()`.
+
+**Do not** compute closure from `wscode_ltree` ancestry (`a.outlet @> b.outlet`).
+That was the pre-#227 method and it silently over-includes, because **two watershed
+groups on the same stream share an outlet code** — so `@>` is true in *both*
+directions and calls each one downstream of the other. Closure is measure-aware,
+not code-aware. This is why `c("PARS","BULK")` dropped from 15 WSGs to 9 when
+#238 adopted fresh 0.33.0.
+
+**Worked example — the Kootenay, where it bites hardest.** FWA carries the whole
+river under one continuous `wscode_ltree = 300.625474`, including the stretch that
+leaves BC near Newgate, runs through Montana and Idaho, and re-enters at Creston.
+Measures chain with no gap:
+
+```
+LARL 0–130 → KOTL 130–431,808 → BULL 431,808–495,206 → SMAR 495,206–608,735 → KOTR 608,735–773,149
+```
+
+So KOTR/SMAR/BULL are **upstream** of Kootenay Lake, reached via the US loop — but
+an ltree test sees them sharing KOTL's outlet code and reports them as downstream.
+The correct closure of `c("LARL","KOTL","SLOC")` is **just those three**: LARL is
+the terminal BC group (it holds the Kootenay's mouth at Castlegar and the Columbia
+down to the border — hence Waneta and Seven Mile sitting in it), and below it is
+the United States.
+
+**`public.wsg_outlet` is gone as a concept** (#227). If you find the table in a
+database it is a leftover from before fresh 0.33.0 — it still answers queries, and
+it answers them wrongly. Outlets now ship in fresh at `inst/extdata/wsg_outlet.csv`
+and reach the DB as a `VALUES` list; no table is needed anywhere.
+
+---
+
 ## 8. Fast verification recipes
 
 ```bash
diff --git a/data-raw/study_area_run.sh b/data-raw/study_area_run.sh
index 04b2de5f..1f4dd8a3 100755
--- a/data-raw/study_area_run.sh
+++ b/data-raw/study_area_run.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 #
 # Cross-WSG `;DAM` correctness WITHOUT a post-consolidate recompute: each
 # host gets a DRAINAGE-CLOSED bucket (focal WSGs + every WSG they drain
-# through, via study_area_wsgs.R / public.wsg_outlet) run DOWNSTREAM-FIRST,
+# through, via study_area_wsgs.R / lnk_wsg_resolve) run DOWNSTREAM-FIRST,
 # so a WSG's downstream dam barriers are persisted before its access /
 # mapping_code is computed. One study area (closed) per host.
 #
diff --git a/research/study_area_run.md b/research/study_area_run.md
index c851de04..329a19ea 100644
--- a/research/study_area_run.md
+++ b/research/study_area_run.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ cyphers in order. Dispatcher-only (no cyphers): omit `--cy-workspaces`, pass one
 1. **Pre-flight** (tunnel-free): local fwapg up, `fresh.streams_vw_bcfp` present,
    doctl/tofu (only if cyphers).
 2. **Drainage-closed DS-first buckets** (`study_area_wsgs.R`): each focal set →
-   its closure (every WSG it drains through, via `public.wsg_outlet`,
+   its closure (every WSG it drains through, via `lnk_wsg_resolve()`,
    `f.outlet <@ w.outlet`) ordered downstream-first (`nlevel(outlet) ASC`),
    then **filtered to bundle-species presence** (link#157).
 3. **Spin + prep** cyphers (`cypher_up.sh`, `cypher_prep.sh` with
diff --git a/research/study_areas.md b/research/study_areas.md
index ee180081..2f65e600 100644
--- a/research/study_areas.md
+++ b/research/study_areas.md
@@ -19,9 +19,11 @@ The 3 FWCP regions and their watershed groups — the parity-run scope for link
 
 29 focal WSGs → **~52 with downstream-closure** (every WSG each drains through —
 e.g. PARS → PCEA / UPCE / LPCE / FINA / PARA / LBTN). Closure + downstream-first
-order are derived from `wscode_ltree` ancestry (`@>`) via the `public.wsg_outlet`
-helper table (a per-WSG outlet `wscode_ltree`; see the Database Connection section
-of `CLAUDE.md` and issue #227 for its reproducible build). Major drainages by root
+order come from `lnk_wsg_resolve()`, which delegates to `fresh::frs_wsg_drainage()`
+(fresh >= 0.33.0). **Do not hand-roll this from `wscode_ltree` ancestry (`@>`)** —
+that was the pre-#227 method and it over-includes: two WSGs on the same stream share
+an outlet code, so `@>` calls each downstream of the other. The closure is
+measure-aware, not code-aware. See RUNBOOK section 8b. Major drainages by root
 wscode: Fraser `100` (68 WSGs), Peace `200` (65), Columbia `300`/ELKR (17 — NOT a
 study area), Skeena `400` (12).