PatchOps

Available tools

5 tools

Tool	Description
`search303dImpairedStreams`	PA impaired streams (~95K). 303(d)-equivalent. Filter use/cause/huc/bbox/near.
`searchActMine`	PA mine permits, anthracite + bituminous + industrial mineral (~42K). NO COUNTY column.
`searchHazardousWasteSites`	PA Land Recycling cleanup sites (~16.9K Soil Media). NO COUNTY column.
`searchAirEmissionSources`	PA Point of Air Emission (~61.3K stack-level points). NO COUNTY column.
`getServiceInfo`	Schema + record counts for any of the 6 services.

About

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, environmental side (water, mining, hazardous waste, air). Same agency as `pa-dep-oilgas`, separate set of layers on the eMapPA External data services. ~95,191 Impaired Streams Assessments. Layer 158 contains ONLY impaired records (BLN_ATTAINED='N'), so this is the 303(d)-equivalent feed. STR_ASSESSED_USE_DESC: Aquatic Life (46.5K) / Recreational (33.4K) / Fish Consumption (14.9K) / Potable Water Supply (443). SOURCE_CAUSE is a free-text concat of pollutant plus cause (top: SOURCE UNKNOWN - PATHOGENS, ACID MINE DRAINAGE - METALS, AGRICULTURE - SILTATION, ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION - MERCURY). Mine permits split across 3 layers: Anthracite (~2,362) / Bituminous (~38,477) / Industrial Mineral (~1,839). PERMIT_TYP is freeform with 90+ distinct values plus typos ('Refuse Reprossing'). Layers 76/77/79 have NO COUNTY column, so the county filter silently drops. Use bbox/near or companyName/mineName. Land Recycling Cleanup, Soil Media (~16,920) is used as the hazardous-waste proxy (largest of 7 cleanup-media sub-layers; SUB_FACILITY_TYPE includes SOIL MEDIA, GROUNDWATER MEDIA, SEDIMENT MEDIA, etc.). Point of Air Emission (~61,291) holds stack-level emission points. PRIMARY_FACILITY_TYPE='AIR EMISSION PLANT' is the only value, so useful filters are companyName / siteStatus / complianceOnly. SITE_STATUS values are inconsistent: UPPERCASE on most ('ACTIVE', 'INACTIVE', 'ABANDONED', 'RECLAMATION COMPLETED') with one upstream typo 'Unavaialble'. NO COUNTY column on the hazardous waste / air emission layers either.

Requirements

ENABLE_ENVIRONMENTAL_APIS
Set ENABLE_ENVIRONMENTAL_APIS=true to allow connector toggles.

Setup

A few steps to connect your AI agents to PA DEP Environmental.

Get started

1
Enable Environmental APIs
Set ENABLE_ENVIRONMENTAL_APIS=true for your deployment.
2
Toggle Connector On
Open /mcp and turn on PA DEP Environmental with the environmental switch.
3
Start Querying
Call the pa-dep-env MCP tool, start with method=search303dImpairedStreams or method=searchActMine.

Connect to your AI assistant

Pick the tool your team uses for the exact setup steps.

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.
6
Start using
Your PA DEP Environmental connector is ready to use in Claude.