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Texas Water Violations, Mapped - Public Data, Finally Usable (opens in new tab)

The maps water quality reports for all the water systems in Texas. View violations by category: oil & gas, radioactive, agricultural, heavy metals, disinfection byproducts. "The state makes this data available but publishes it as 225,000 individual Word documents behind a search form. I scraped the data, converted it to structured data, geocoded each system, and put it all on a map." A beautiful and terrifying project created by ]

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