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 2 d ago · showing last good readingAir quality
41GoodUS AQI
PM2.5 6μg/m³PM10 6μg/m³Ozone 119μg/m³NO₂ 3μg/m³
Water monitoring
Salt Creek At Rolling Meadows, Il · 5.7 km away
2.42 ft3/sStreamflow
2.18 ftGage height
Active alerts
✓ No active weather alerts
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 41 (Good). Observed Aug 30, 3:00 PM.
6.2 μg/m³PM2.5
6.3 μg/m³PM10
119.0 μg/m³Ozone
2.7 μg/m³NO₂
2.2 μg/m³SO₂
134.0 μg/m³CO
Source: Open-Meteo Air Quality ↗
Water monitoring — nearest site
Salt Creek At Rolling Meadows, Il · 5.7 km away · 111 sites in range
2.42 ft3/sStreamflow · Aug 30, 7:45 PM
2.18 ftGage height · Aug 30, 7:45 PM
Source: USGS Water Services ↗
Active weather alerts0
✓ No active National Weather Service alerts for this area.
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 Aug 30, 8:43 PM (showing last good reading while refreshing). All data is public and carries no personal information.