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VA Department of Environmental Quality

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Virginia Department of Environmental Quality solid-waste permits, alternate water supplies, biosolids, federal facilities, air sites and emissions, and Chesapeake Bay zones via the EDMA mapping service. 10 curated layers from VA's 127-layer environmental data catalog. No credentials required.

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What you can ask

  • “What does VA Department of Environmental Quality have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
  • “Pull the most recent VA Department of Environmental Quality records and put them in a table.”
  • “What does VA Department of Environmental Quality cover, and how fresh is the data?”

About this source

Virginia DEQ solid-waste permits, alternate water supplies, biosolids, federal facilities, air sites + emissions, and Chesapeake Bay zones via the EDMA mapping service. 10 curated layers from VA's 127-layer ArcGIS deployment. - searchSolidWastePermits ⭐ 1.4K (881 Revoked, 491 Permitted) - searchAirSites ⭐ 3.7K active air sites with classification - searchAirEmissions ⭐ 17.8K TPY rows (PM 10/VOC/NOX/SO2) - searchBiosolidsAreas, searchAltWaterSupplies, searchChesapeakeBayZones §0: schema inconsistent — Solid Waste uses LOCALITY/FACILITY_COUNTY; Alt Water no county; Air Sites uses FAC_L_CITY. Layer 292 is a Table. CRS 3857; outSR=4326.

Connector ID va-deq

Provenance

PublisherVA Department of Environmental Quality
API basehttps://apps.deq.virginia.gov/arcgis/rest/services/public/EDMA/MapServer

Freshness & coverage

FreshnessFreshness not declared
GeographicNot declared
TemporalNot declared
AuthenticationNo credentials required

› Methods (7)

Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.

  • searchSolidWastePermits

    read

    VA Solid Waste Permits (~1.4K). Filter locality/permitType/permitStatus/operatingStatus.

    881 of 1397 are Revoked — pass permitStatus: "Permitted" to filter to live.

  • searchAirSites

    read

    VA Active Air Sites (~3.7K). Filter classification/operationStatus/city/facilityName.

    classification: True Minor / Synthetic Minor / Major / Major (T5) / Area (HAP).

  • searchAirEmissions

    read

    VA Air Emissions TPY (~17.8K rows; Table only). Filter pollutant/facilityName/minTpy.

    No geometry — join via PLA_ICIS_ID. Year 2024 only.

  • searchAlternateWaterSupplies

    read

    VA Alt Water Supplies CFU sites (~2.3K). Filter city/status/name.

    No county column on this layer — only ARS_CITY.

  • searchBiosolidsAreas

    read

    VA Biosolids polygons (~9.3K). Filter countyFips (5-digit FULL FIPS), controlNumber, minAcres.

    countyFips is FULL 5-digit ("51031" = VA Campbell), NOT 3-digit.

  • searchChesapeakeBayZones

    read

    Chesapeake Bay zone polygons. zone: rpa (87) | ida (20) | rma (148).

  • getServiceInfo

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    Schema, record counts, max-page caps, enum values, §0 probe notes for any of 10 services.