SUPPORT THIS PROJECT

Look up sites near you, share the map with someone who lives nearby, or send a profile page to a local reporter or organizer. If you find a bug or error, report it at feedback@keepcurious.co.

Almost every Superfund site has a Community Involvement Coordinator and a Remedial Project Manager. Most sites go through public comment processes while selecting and planning cleanup actions. Those channels exist to hold regulators accountable to the communities they're tasked with protecting. And they work better when more people show up.

Support goes straight to keeping the project online and making it better. Specifically, that means:

Running costs. Hosting services, the database, and cloud storage space for additional features. These are recurring bills that will grow with traffic.

Better base map. The current base map is a satellite-imagery-only layer provided by the US Geological Survey. It's the only viable, free-to-use satellite base map, but it comes at the cost of longer load times, lower resolution, and some missing or redacted coverage. A higher-quality satellite base map solves for each of those downsides and enables more features to be added to the map without slowing it down.

More data. Time and API budget to enable deeper insights on every page. It also means faster site profile updates and more frequent historical data snapshots.

Better performance. Higher-tier hosting plan. This means more headroom to implement a dynamic real-time data visualization dashboard.

Reduced energy use. Site summaries currently depend on cloud AI services. Running open-weight LLMs locally requires upfront hardware costs, but significantly reduces energy impact. This also means more detailed summaries, richer context from site documents, and near-real-time summary updates.