PatchOps

Available tools

6 tools

Tool	Description
`searchPermits`	ADEM AEPACS environmental permits + compliance (~83.7K). 42 permit categories covering NPDES, MS4, stormwater, air, solid waste, UIC, CAFO, scrap tire, asbestos, etc. Filter status (12 values), permitCategory, permitType, facilityName, permittee, city.
`searchUSTSites`	AL UST Sites (~10.3K). Filter county (handler accepts 3-digit FIPS or county name and resolves to FIPS internally, 67 counties mapped), siteName, city, accountNumber. Native column is FIPS-only.
`searchBrownfields`	ADEM Brownfield Events (~776). Filter county (handler trims whitespace and handles DeKalb/De Kalb casing), siteName, city, owner. LastActivityDate is parsed from string format.
`searchComplaints`	ADEM Public Complaints (~13K). Filter media (AIR/COASTAL/LAND/WATER, exactly 4 UPPERCASE values), status (OPEN/CLOSED, exactly 2), complainant, number.
`searchJustice40Tracts`	AL Justice40 Disadvantaged Census Tracts (~655 polygons). Filter geoid, sf. 248 CEJST methodology fields available in `properties` for advanced use.
`getServiceInfo`	Schema, record counts (live), max-page caps, enum values for every filter, county FIPS map, and §0 probe notes for any of the 5 curated services.

About

Alabama Department of Environmental Management environmental permits, UST sites, brownfields, Justice40 census tracts, and public complaints via the agency data services. Five curated layers from ADEM's 110+ data services catalog: layer 0 ADEM e-Permitting + Compliance Activities (~83,663 points covering 42 distinct permit categories including Industrial Individual Permit, Industrial General, MS4 General/Individual, Construction General, Mining General/Individual, Stormwater, Stage 1 Air Permit, Solid Waste Landfill / Post Closure, UIC Class 1/3/5 plus General, CAFO Registration, Asbestos Notification/Contractor, Bulk Gasoline Plant, Materials Recovery, Recycling, Scrap Tire Facility/Landfill/Processor/Transporter, Coastal Variance, 401 WQC, Pesticides, Storage Tank Registration; 12 STATUS values: Closed/Expired/Expired (Inactive)/Extended/In Effect/In Process/Issued (Not In Effect)/Post Closure/Superseded/Suspended/Terminated/Terminated (Can Re-Register)); layer 0 (~10,347 underground storage tank facilities; SITE_ID_COUNTY uses 3-digit FIPS strings only, so the handler maps county names to FIPS internally); layer 0 ADEM Brownfield Events (~776 sites with site number, master ID, address, county, recorded owner, approx acres, last activity date); layer 4 Justice40 Disadvantaged Census Tracts (~655 polygons; 248 CEJST methodology fields covering demographics plus screening factors plus DF_PFS / AF_PFS / HDF_PFS / DSF_PFS / EBF_PFS / EALR_PFS / EBLR_PFS / EPLR_PFS / HBF_PFS / LLEF_PFS / LIF_PFS / LMI_PFS / MHVF_PFS / PM25F_PFS / etc.); layer 0 (~12,988 public environmental complaints; Media is exactly 4 UPPERCASE values AIR/COASTAL/LAND/WATER; Status is exactly 2 UPPERCASE values OPEN/CLOSED). Section 0 surprises: AEPACS uses both lowercase object_id (Double, duplicate) and uppercase ESRI_OID (the actual OID, esriFieldTypeOID), so the handler reads ESRI_OID. AEPACS does not support aggregation reliably and refuses distinct-values=true with geometry ('Geometry is not supported with DISTINCT.'). UST_Sites SITE_ID_COUNTY is 3-digit FIPS-only with no county-name column, so the handler exposes a county filter that accepts FIPS or county name and resolves via an embedded 67-county map. The Brownfields County column has casing inconsistencies ('DeKalb' 9 + 'De Kalb' 4 for the same county) and whitespace bugs (' Montgomery ' with leading and trailing spaces), so the handler trims and uppercases. Brownfields LastActivityDate is a STRING formatted '10/20/2025 2:12 PM' (not epoch ms), so the handler parses with new Date(...). AEPACS native CRS is EPSG:26916 (NAD83 UTM Zone 16N); other layers are EPSG:3857. Last verified live 2026-05-07.

Requirements

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Setup

A few steps to connect your AI agents to AL Department of Environmental Management.

Get started

1
Toggle Connector On
Open /mcp and enable AL Department of Environmental Management with the toggle, no credentials needed.
2
Start Querying
Call searchPermits with permitCategory: 'Stage 1 Air Permit' and status: 'In Effect' for active major air sources, or searchUSTSites with county: 'Mobile' (handler maps to FIPS 097) for Mobile County tank sites.

Connect to your AI assistant

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1
Open Claude settings
Launch Claude, click the profile button (bottom left), and go to Settings.
2
Access connectors
Open the Connectors tab, scroll to the bottom, and click “Add custom connector”.
3
Name your connector
Enter any name you’d like for this connector.
4
Get the connector URL
Log in to PatchOps, open the /mcp page, and copy the connector URL you want to use.
5
Add the connector
Paste the URL into the “Remote MCP server URL” box and click Add.
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Start using
Your AL Department of Environmental Management connector is ready to use in Claude.