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.
7 methodsFreshness not declaredVirginia Department of Forestry — state forests, DOF offices, fire-risk Woodland Home Communities, and the DCR-curated Virginia Conservation Lands aggregator. - searchStateForests ⭐ 26 state forest polygons (Appomattox-Buckingham 19.5K acres + 25 others) - searchConservationLands ⭐ 14,535 polygons across 70 tract types — state parks, forests, WMAs, easements, federal/local/private fee tracts - searchWoodlandCommunities ⭐ 5,433 fire-risk evals (Low/Moderate/Medium/High/EXTREME) - searchDofOffices 42 office points §0: WHC County is UPPERCASE. Conservation Lands has no county column — filter by name/agency/bbox. Com_Type has 5 typo variants of Interface/Intermix.
5 methodsFreshness not declaredVirginia Department of Energy (ex-DMME) — coalbed methane / oil & gas wells, 54.6K SWVA drilling grids, and statewide mineral mining permits. - searchOilGasWells ⭐ active (8.6K) | permittedUndrilled (208) | plugged (1.97K) via wellLayer - searchHorizontalGrids ⭐ 54.6K SWVA 20-acre drilling grid polygons - searchMineralMines ⭐ active (450) | released (1.78K). Filter mineralType (OP/QU/UG) - getWellByFiNo (cross-layer lookup), getServiceInfo §0 caught: Legacy dmme.virginia.gov DEAD — public surface is energy.virginia.gov. Geothermal/8 (NGDS, 1.3K) duplicate of DGO_wells — DROPPED. 73% CBM (Coalbed/Pipeline + Coal Bed). Counties UPPERCASE (BUCHANAN/DICKENSON/WISE 88%). Native CRS EPSG:6591; outSR=4326 reprojects.
5 methodsFreshness not declared
Knowledge
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