What you can ask
- “What does MT Department of Environmental Quality have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
- “Pull the most recent MT Department of Environmental Quality records and put them in a table.”
- “What does MT Department of Environmental Quality cover, and how fresh is the data?”
About this source
Montana Department of Environmental Quality USTs + petroleum tank releases + MPDES water permits + air-quality monitoring + hazardous waste via gis.mtdeq.us/hosting. - searchUSTFacilities ⭐ 1.1K UST facility registry - searchTankReleases ⭐ 4.5K PTC cleanup events (Resolved/Open/Rescinded/Reopened) - searchWaterPermits ⭐ 2.7K MPDES discharge permits across 27 types - searchAirQualityMonitors ⭐ 21M hourly AQS readings (33 sites, PM25/O3/NO2/...) - searchHazardousWaste 3K RCRA generators §0: Native CRS 32100 (MT State Plane); outSR=4326. Host historically flaky — handler retries once. Most layers have NO county column (only Hazardous Waste does).
Connector ID mt-deq
Provenance
Freshness & coverage
› Methods (6)
Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.
searchUSTFacilities
readMT UST facility registry (~1.1K). Filter facilityName/city/zip/facilityCode.
No county column — use bbox/near for spatial.
searchTankReleases
readMT PTC Releases (~4.5K). Filter status/leadProgram/facilityName/cause/source/dates.
Status: Resolved/Open/Rescinded/Reopened. Lead programs PTC + CPRS.
searchWaterPermits
readMT FACTS MPDES Permits (~2.7K). Filter permitType/status/permittee/siteName/city/expiringBefore.
27 permit types; status Effective/Expired/Admin Continued.
searchAirQualityMonitors
readMT Air Quality hourly (~21.3M). Filter parameter/siteName/healthCategory/aqsCode/dates.
Always narrow with parameter+site+date. Newest-first ordering.
searchHazardousWaste
readMT RCRA Hazardous Waste (~3.1K). Filter county/city/facilityName/generatorStatus/epaCode/naicsCode.
Has fac_county UPPERCASE. gen_status: LQG/SQG/VSQG/+.
getServiceInfo
readSchema, record counts, max-page caps, enum values, §0 probe notes for any of 5 layers.
