What EPA-regulated facilities are near this address?
Type a Cook County address and this free check lists every facility within half a mile that holds an EPA permit or reports to an EPA program, with the compliance status the EPA itself records, the dates of the last inspection and enforcement action, and a link to each facility’s own EPA report. Useful before you buy, rent or build; it is a list of regulated neighbors, not a judgement about any of them.
Environmental Snapshot
Facilities within half a mile of a Cook County parcel, from the EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO).
What it shows
- How many EPA-tracked facilities are within half a mile of the parcel
- Which of them the EPA lists with a violation or significant violation, first
- For each: name, address, distance, EPA compliance status, and the dates of the last inspection, formal enforcement action and penalty, with any penalty total the EPA reports
- A link to each facility’s Detailed Facility Report on the EPA’s website
What it doesn’t
- Public drinking water system violations: not included yet, because we haven’t verified a source that maps an address to its water system
- Contamination on the property itself, soil or indoor air: the EPA lists regulated facilities, not conditions at a parcel
- Any score or judgement about a facility: statuses are printed exactly as the EPA labels them
There is no report to buy behind this check. Everything the EPA publishes for the facilities near your parcel is on the page above, and we have nothing to add to it that would be worth $1. If you are checking a Cook County property before you buy, the two paid reports that do exist are the Tax Appeal Evidence Packet ($59, Cook County) and Permit History & Discrepancy ($49, City of Chicago) — and both start with a free check of their own.
Straight from the EPA, in your browser
The parcel’s coordinates come from the Cook County Assessor’s parcel records. Your browser sends them to the EPA’s public ECHO web service, which returns the facilities within half a mile. CivicDelta doesn’t store the result or your address.
Because the request goes from your browser to the EPA, the EPA’s servers see it like any visit to their site.
Common questions
Does “No Violation Identified” mean a facility is safe?
No. It is the EPA’s compliance status for the programs it tracks at that facility, printed exactly as the EPA labels it. It is not an assessment of risk to you.
Does no facility nearby mean there is no environmental problem?
No. Absence from the EPA’s database is not clearance. ECHO lists regulated facilities, not conditions at a parcel, and many past uses of land never appear in it.
Why half a mile?
It keeps the answer focused on the immediate area and the response small enough to load quickly. The EPA’s own ECHO search lets you widen the radius.
Do you store my address?
No. The address is matched to a parcel in your browser, and only the parcel’s map coordinates are sent to the EPA. Nothing is stored here and there is no report to buy.
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