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 Iowa City · updated 6 hr ago · showing last good readingAir quality
47GoodUS AQI
PM2.5 15μg/m³PM10 15μg/m³Ozone 20μg/m³NO₂ 21μg/m³
Water monitoring
Iowa River At Iowa City, Ia · 1 km away
1070 ft3/sStreamflow
10.54 ftGage height
Active alerts
- ModerateHeat 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 47 (Good). Observed Sep 1, 7:00 AM.
14.7 μg/m³PM2.5
15.1 μg/m³PM10
20.0 μg/m³Ozone
21.4 μg/m³NO₂
0.7 μg/m³SO₂
134.0 μg/m³CO
Source: Open-Meteo Air Quality ↗
Water monitoring — nearest site
Iowa River At Iowa City, Ia · 1 km away · 29 sites in range
1070 ft3/sStreamflow · Sep 1, 12:00 PM
10.54 ftGage height · Sep 1, 12:00 PM
Source: USGS Water Services ↗
Active weather alerts1
ModerateHeat Advisoryuntil Sep 4, 12:00 AM
Heat Advisory issued September 1 at 2:32AM CDT until September 3 at 7:00PM CDT by NWS Quad Cities IA IL
Iowa; Johnson; Cedar; Muscatine; Scott; Keokuk; Washington; Louisa; Jefferson; Henry; Des Moines; Van Buren; Lee; Rock Island; Henry; Mercer; Henderson; Warren; Hancock; McDonough; Scotland; Clark
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.
Fairfield Coal Gasification Plant
Fairfield · NPL Site · 82 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, 12:11 PM (showing last good reading while refreshing). All data is public and carries no personal information.