You deserve to know what's in your air, water, and soil.

Every day, industrial facilities release toxic chemicals into the environment around us. Superfund sites sit quietly in neighborhoods where families raise children. Water systems rack up violations that never make the evening news. And most people have no idea.

It's not that this information is hidden — technically, it's public. It lives buried in EPA databases, scattered across multiple government systems, written in formats that require a technical background to understand. The data is there. But access isn't the same as transparency.

I started paying closer attention to what goes into my body — the food I eat, the supplements I take, the products I use. And then I realized: I had no idea what was in the environment around me. The air I breathe walking to my car. The water coming out of my tap. The soil my neighborhood was built on.

When I tried to find out, I hit a wall. Government databases that time out. Tables that no longer exist. Field names that don't match the documentation. APIs that return schools and dry cleaners as "Superfund sites." I spent an entire weekend just trying to get accurate data out of these systems.

That's when it clicked: if it's this hard for someone with a technical background, what chance does everyone else have?

Solbreca pulls data directly from the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory, the National Priorities List for Superfund sites, the Safe Drinking Water Information System, and the AirNow network. It takes an address, queries multiple federal databases in real time, and gives you a clear, scored assessment of the environmental risks around you.

No paywalls to see the basics. No jargon. No need to know what "TRI_FACILITY" or "SDWA_VIOLATIONS" means. Just type an address and see what's there.

We have a right to know what's in our environment. We put dyes in our food, pesticides on our crops, and chemicals in our water — and most of it goes unquestioned because the information is too hard to find. I believe that when people have clear, honest information, they make better decisions for themselves and their families.

That's why I made this. Not to scare anyone. Not to push an agenda. Just to make the data that already exists about your environment actually accessible to the people who live in it.

How scores are calculated

Toxic releases and Superfund sites are scored based on exact distance from your address. We use real coordinates and haversine distance math — not zip codes or city boundaries. If you're 2.1 miles from a chemical plant and your neighbor is 2.4 miles away, your scores will be different. Closer means higher risk. Superfund sites carry heavier penalties because they represent the most seriously contaminated land in the country.

Air quality is pulled from the nearest AirNow monitoring station, matched by zip code. AQI doesn't shift dramatically over a few miles, so this is accurate for your area even if the sensor isn't on your block.

Drinking water reflects your city's municipal water system. Everyone on the same city water supply shares the same data — because your tap water comes from the same treatment plant as your neighbor's. We look at serious violations, health-based violations, lead and copper flags, and how many rules the system has broken in the past three years.

The overall score is a weighted composite: toxic releases (35%), Superfund (30%), water (20%), and air quality (15%). If any single category is critically bad, the overall score gets capped — because living next to a Superfund site doesn't get cancelled out by clean air.

Solbreca is powered by publicly available data from the EPA, AirNow, and ECHO. Scores are calculated based on proximity, severity, and violation history. This tool is for informational purposes and does not constitute environmental or health advice.