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 Independence · updated 1 d ago · showing last good readingAir quality
40GoodUS AQI
PM2.5 5μg/m³PM10 5μg/m³Ozone 54μg/m³NO₂ 7μg/m³
Water monitoring
Rock Creek At E Wilson Road In Independence, Mo · 5.3 km away
0.67 ft3/sStreamflow
9.35 ftGage height
27.4 deg CWater temperature
558 uS/cm @25CSpecific conductance
Active alerts
- SevereExtreme Heat Warning
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 40 (Good). Observed Aug 15, 6:00 AM.
4.5 μg/m³PM2.5
5.2 μg/m³PM10
54.0 μg/m³Ozone
6.8 μg/m³NO₂
1.2 μg/m³SO₂
118.0 μg/m³CO
Source: Open-Meteo Air Quality ↗
Water monitoring — nearest site
Rock Creek At E Wilson Road In Independence, Mo · 5.3 km away · 47 sites in range
0.67 ft3/sStreamflow · Aug 15, 11:30 AM
9.35 ftGage height · Aug 15, 11:30 AM
27.4 deg CWater temperature · Aug 15, 11:30 AM
558 uS/cm @25CSpecific conductance · Aug 15, 11:30 AM
3.0 mg/lDissolved oxygen · Aug 15, 11:30 AM
Source: USGS Water Services ↗
Active weather alerts1
SevereExtreme Heat Warninguntil Aug 16, 2:00 AM
Extreme Heat Warning issued August 15 at 1:42AM CDT until August 15 at 9:00PM CDT by NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
Atchison; Leavenworth; Wyandotte; Johnson; Platte; Clay; Ray; Carroll; Chariton; Randolph; Jackson; Lafayette
Source: National Weather Service ↗
Earthquakes — last 30 days0
✓ No earthquakes ≥ M2.5 within 250 km.
Source: USGS Earthquake Catalog ↗
Superfund sites
33 active EPA Superfund (National Priorities List) sites in MO of 39 ever listed.
Conservation Chemical Co.
Kansas City · NPL Site · 6 km away
The state’s energy ledger
What MO’s grid runs on, its EV fleet and charging network, and where its mandate stands — from the national Energy Ledger.
Open the MO energy dossier →Snapshot generated Aug 15, 11:44 AM (showing last good reading while refreshing). All data is public and carries no personal information.