Grail Systems builds tools that pull government data into one place, so a community can see who’s deciding what, who’s paying for it, and what it’s costing them. Government records are public. They just aren’t always easy to find. We fix the second part.
Designed and built by Fawn Elizabeth Zion, systems architect, Lufkin, Texas.
Built for the East Texas Legacy Coalition
Data centers and power plants are lining up for water and power in Deep East Texas, right on top of the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer the whole region drinks from. The Grid puts every project, permit, water level and campaign donation on one public map, and every point links back to the record it came from.
Sources: ERCOT, EPA ECHO, the Texas Water Development Board, the Texas Ethics Commission, LegiScan and Texas Legislature Online, the Angelina County Appraisal District, and public information requests.
Projects, grid requests, aquifer water levels and EPA violations across Deep East Texas.
Energy and utility money to the officials who represent Deep East Texas, next to how they voted.
Every request filed, what each agency did with it, and what’s still being withheld.
The report on how East Texas water is being committed out of public view.
Fawn Elizabeth Zion: her testimony, her proposals, and the fight so far.
Early warning, one county at a time
Big projects, power-grid requests, aquifer water levels, EPA violations and records requests for a single county, refreshed nightly. Each page includes a free tool that writes a public information request for you.
The first county page. Lufkin, Diboll, Huntington, Zavalla and the rest of Angelina County.
Legislative briefs. Short, sourced summaries for lawmakers and reporters, built from the same records the Grid uses.
More nightly sources. A nightly job already refreshes the map data and checks every records-request deadline. More public sources are being added to it.