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 Cedar Falls · updated 5 hr ago · showing last good readingAir quality
20GoodUS AQI
PM2.5 9μg/m³PM10 9μg/m³Ozone 21μg/m³NO₂ 20μg/m³
Water monitoring
Cedar River At Cedar Falls, Ia · 0.3 km away
1890 ft3/sStreamflow
78.68 ftGage height
Active alerts
- ModerateDense Fog Advisory
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 20 (Good). Observed Sep 1, 7:00 AM.
8.6 μg/m³PM2.5
8.9 μg/m³PM10
21.0 μg/m³Ozone
20.0 μg/m³NO₂
0.5 μg/m³SO₂
189.0 μg/m³CO
Source: Open-Meteo Air Quality ↗
Water monitoring — nearest site
Cedar River At Cedar Falls, Ia · 0.3 km away · 20 sites in range
1890 ft3/sStreamflow · Sep 1, 11:45 AM
78.68 ftGage height · Oct 1, 4:45 AM
Source: USGS Water Services ↗
Active weather alerts1
ModerateDense Fog Advisoryuntil Sep 1, 1:00 PM
Dense Fog Advisory issued September 1 at 3:57AM CDT until September 1 at 8:00AM CDT by NWS Des Moines IA
Butler; Bremer; Grundy; Black Hawk; Marshall; Tama
Source: National Weather Service ↗
Earthquakes — last 30 days0
✓ No earthquakes ≥ M2.5 within 250 km.
Source: USGS Earthquake Catalog ↗
Superfund sites
14 active EPA Superfund (National Priorities List) sites in IA of 25 ever listed.
Waterloo Coal Gasification Plant
Waterloo · Proposed NPL Site · 11 km away
The state’s energy ledger
What IA’s grid runs on, its EV fleet and charging network, and where its mandate stands — from the national Energy Ledger.
Open the IA energy dossier →Snapshot generated Sep 1, 12:25 PM (showing last good reading while refreshing). All data is public and carries no personal information.