Groundfax

Environmental records radius reports, straight from the authoritative public record.

The government database search behind a Phase I ESA — federal and state sources at ASTM E1527-21 / AAI search distances, compiled and mapped in minutes, delivered as PDF, Excel, and GeoJSON. No subscription, no seat license.

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323 state + 16 federal database connectors, all 50 states + DC — every source, distance, and gap published. Coverage disclosure
96% of 2,296 sites site-level parity measured against five purchased EDR reports (Aug 2026), including the misses. The side-by-sides
Minutes, not days reports generate on demand from refreshed agency mirrors; every record carries its source's refresh date, audited weekly — the latest audit.

What a report contains

The full ASTM search

NPL, deleted NPL, RCRA (TSD, generators, corrective action), Superfund/SEMS, state cleanup registries, LUST, UST/AST, spills, brownfields, VCP, institutional controls, dry cleaners, landfills, water wells — each at its E1527-21 distance, with adjoining-property banding. What we don't search (tribal registries, local records) is disclosed, not implied.

Mapped and disclosed

Labeled key maps with a detail inset, per-site elevation and up/down-gradient flag, agency currency dates on every source, and records the agency publishes without coordinates disclosed as orphans — never silently dropped.

Yours to work with

PDF for the report file, Excel and GeoJSON of every finding for your own workflow — included at every price, not an upsell. Each report is archived and reproducible, stamped with the exact code version that produced it.

Pricing

ReportContentsPrice
Radius Report Full ASTM database search, maps, orphans, elevation — PDF + Excel + GeoJSON $149
Radius + Historical Adds aerial imagery frames, Sanborn fire-insurance sheets, historical-use disclosure — by request while in pilot: orders@groundfax.com $249
Litigation records package Custom pull radius, era-by-era records assembly, citations to the agency of record from $950/matter

Volume: 10-pack −20%, 25-pack −30%. Litigation data work beyond scope bills at $135/hr; expert services (opinions, expert reports, testimony) are engaged separately and are not part of any Groundfax product. Groundfax reports are compilations of public records — they do not contain an environmental professional's opinion.

Pilot offer for environmental professionals: up to three reports free per firm email while we onboard design partners — order online, no card required. If you can share a recent radius report on a property you know, we'll run the same property and send you the side-by-side. Write orders@groundfax.com.

Check our work

Parity package

Five purchased EDR reports, re-run through Groundfax on the same properties and radii: every match, every dispute, every miss, side by side. We publish the misses because you'd find them anyway.

Coverage & validation

Every database we search, its search distance, its refresh age — and the states where an agency publishes no registry at all, verified and said plainly rather than papered over.

Source health

Every connector's status as of the last weekly audit: refresh age, record counts, and the checks that hunt silent failure. 7 reports issued and archived to date.