Privacy

No accounts, no tracking, and no page that calls a named address polluted.

What we collect from visitors

Nothing automatic. No accounts, no advertising, no analytics script, no cookie set by this site. Searches run in your browser against static files — what you type is not sent to us.

What we collect when you write to us

The forms send what you type to Formspree, which forwards it to our mailbox: your email address and the details you give about a site or a portfolio.

We use it to answer you and, where you asked for it, to look for environmental consultants and pass your request on. We take no commission and we recommend nobody. We have no arrangement with any firm today; we are gathering these requests in order to go and find them. Say so in the message and we pass nothing on. Ask us and we delete what you sent.

The sites and people in the register

This site republishes two public files from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, whose site content the agency describes as public domain.

No page calls a site polluted. The file records a reported date and, if there is one, a closure date — no substance, no extent, no measurement. Every figure on this site is a count or a date, and the individual case appears only on a result drawn in your browser from the part of the URL after the #, which cannot be indexed.

The owner’s name appears on no page. It is in the tank file and is a natural person’s name in a fair number of cases. Pages name the site and the regulated entity.

No list of open cases is published. 1,078 addresses under such a heading would be read as a verdict on each. The count, and its distribution by county and decade, are published instead.

Having your record removed

If you are named on this site and would rather not be, write to us and we will remove you. You do not have to explain why, and we will not ask.

Two things this cannot do, and we say so plainly rather than let you find out later: it does not change the official register, which is where the record actually lives; and it does not remove you from anyone else's copy of the same public data.