Environmental watch
What's in the air, water, and ground around here.
Live environmental OSINT for your community, pulled from public federal feeds — the EPA, the USGS, and the National Weather Service. No account, no tracking; every number links back to its public source. Auto-refreshes about every 30 minutes.
🌎 Environmental watch
Live public data for Chicago · updated 11 hr ago · showing last good readingAir quality
90ModerateUS AQI
PM2.5 6μg/m³PM10 6μg/m³Ozone 86μg/m³NO₂ 19μg/m³
Water monitoring
Chicago River At Columbus Drive At Chicago, Il · 1.3 km away
524 ft3/sStreamflow
-3.11 ftGage height
Active alerts
- SevereFlood Watch
Earthquakes · 30 days
✓ None ≥ M2.5 nearby
Sources: Open-Meteo Air Quality, USGS Water Services, National Weather Service, USGS Earthquake Catalog, EPA National Priorities List. All public, no personal data.
Air quality — full readout
US Air Quality Index 90 (Moderate). Observed Aug 14, 8:00 PM.
5.5 μg/m³PM2.5
5.5 μg/m³PM10
86.0 μg/m³Ozone
18.6 μg/m³NO₂
1.0 μg/m³SO₂
161.0 μg/m³CO
Source: Open-Meteo Air Quality ↗
Water monitoring — nearest site
Chicago River At Columbus Drive At Chicago, Il · 1.3 km away · 102 sites in range
524 ft3/sStreamflow · Oct 1, 5:59 AM
-3.11 ftGage height · Aug 15, 12:38 AM
Source: USGS Water Services ↗
Active weather alerts1
SevereFlood Watchuntil Aug 15, 3:00 PM
Flood Watch issued August 14 at 12:01PM CDT until August 15 at 10:00AM CDT by NWS Chicago IL
Ogle; Lee; De Kalb; Kane; DuPage; Kendall; Northern Cook; Central Cook; Southern Cook; Northern Will
Source: National Weather Service ↗
Earthquakes — last 30 days0
✓ No earthquakes ≥ M2.5 within 250 km.
Source: USGS Earthquake Catalog ↗
Superfund sites
49 active EPA Superfund (National Priorities List) sites in IL of 56 ever listed.
Acme Steel Coke Plant
Chicago · NPL Site · 22 km away
The state’s energy ledger
What IL’s grid runs on, its EV fleet and charging network, and where its mandate stands — from the national Energy Ledger.
Open the IL energy dossier →Snapshot generated Aug 15, 1:04 AM (showing last good reading while refreshing). All data is public and carries no personal information.