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 Palatine · updated 1 min agoAir quality
40GoodUS AQI
PM2.5 11μg/m³PM10 11μg/m³Ozone 48μg/m³NO₂ 34μg/m³
Water monitoring
Salt Creek At Rolling Meadows, Il · 5.7 km away
40.4 ft3/sStreamflow
3.08 ftGage height
Active alerts
- UnknownHydrologic Outlook
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 Sep 30, 9:00 PM.
10.6 μg/m³PM2.5
10.7 μg/m³PM10
48.0 μg/m³Ozone
34.2 μg/m³NO₂
2.9 μg/m³SO₂
221.0 μg/m³CO
Source: Open-Meteo Air Quality ↗
Water monitoring — nearest site
Salt Creek At Rolling Meadows, Il · 5.7 km away · 109 sites in range
40.4 ft3/sStreamflow · Oct 1, 1:45 AM
3.08 ftGage height · Oct 1, 1:45 AM
Source: USGS Water Services ↗
Active weather alerts1
UnknownHydrologic Outlookuntil Oct 1, 9:00 AM
Hydrologic Outlook issued September 30 at 1:02PM CDT by NWS Chicago IL
Boone, IL; Cook, IL; De Kalb, IL; DuPage, IL; Grundy, IL; Kane, IL; Kendall, IL; Lake, IL; La Salle, IL; Lee, IL; McHenry, IL; Ogle, IL; Will, IL; Winnebago, IL; Lake, IN; Porter, IN
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.
Wauconda Sand & Gravel
Wauconda · NPL Site · 21 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 Oct 1, 2:09 AM. All data is public and carries no personal information.