PatchOps

Available tools

7 tools

Tool	Description
`searchSolidWastePermits`	VA Solid Waste Permits (~1.4K). Filter locality (county/city), permitType, permitStatus (Permitted/Revoked/Pending), operatingStatus (Active/Closed/Post Closure), unitType, facilityName. Most are Revoked (881), pass permitStatus: 'Permitted' for 491 live.
`searchAlternateWaterSupplies`	VA Alternate Water Supplies CFU Sites (~2.3K). No county column, filter city, status (Active System / 7 Closed variants / Assessment / Referral), name.
`searchBiosolidsAreas`	VA Biosolids polygons (~9.3K). Filter countyFips (5-digit FULL FIPS e.g. '51031' = state 51 + county 031), controlNumber, minAcres. Returns Polygon GeoJSON via format: 'geojson'.
`searchAirSites`	VA Active Air Sites (~3.7K). Filter city (FAC_L_CITY), classification (True Minor / Synthetic Minor / 80% Synthetic Minor / Major / Major (T5) / Area (HAP)), operationStatus (Operating/Seasonal/Temporarily Shutdown), facilityName, naicsCode.
`searchAirEmissions`	VA Air Site Emissions TPY (~17.8K rows; Table only, no geometry, join via PLA_ICIS_ID). Filter year (2024 only), pollutant (PM 10/VOC/NOX/CO/SO2/PB/NH3/FORM/HCL/+), facilityName, federalId, registrationNumber, minTpy.
`searchChesapeakeBayZones`	Chesapeake Bay zone polygons. zone: rpa (87 Resource Protection Areas) \| ida (20 Intensely Developed) \| rma (148 Resource Management). Returns Polygon GeoJSON for direct map handoff.
`getServiceInfo`	Schema, record counts (live), max-page caps, enum values for every filter, and §0 probe notes for any of the 10 curated services.

About

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 at the agency data services. The catalog has 127 published layers (IDs run 0 to 320 with gaps), curated to 10 high-signal layers: layer 100 Solid Waste Permits (~1,397 points; 491 Permitted, 881 Revoked, 6 distinct PERMIT_STATUS values, 6 PERMIT_TYPE values, 9 OPERATING_STATUS values), layer 106 Alternate Water Supplies CFU Sites (~2,283 points; 12 ARS_STATUS values led by Closed 1178 + Closed (PWS hookup) 430 + Active System 139), layer 207 Biosolids Areas (~9,336 polygons keyed by FIPS plus DEQ control number), layer 208 Biosolids Site Addresses (~708 points), layer 290 Non-NPL Federal Facilities (~23 points; military plus DOE), layer 292 AIR SITES EMISSIONS TPY (~17,780 rows in a Table, no geometry, single year 2024, 50+ pollutants led by PM 10 / VOC / NOX / CO / SO2), layer 294 Active Air Sites (~3,696 points with classification True Minor 2020 / Synthetic Minor 1054 / Major 172 / Major (T5) 24 / Area (HAP) 48), layers 33/34/35 Chesapeake Bay Resource Protection / Intensely Developed / Resource Management Areas (255 polygons total). Section 0 surprises caught: the schema is inconsistent between layers. Solid Waste uses LOCALITY (county-name) plus FACILITY_COUNTY (3-digit FIPS); Alternate Water has no county column at all (only ARS_CITY); Biosolids uses FIPS only; Air Sites uses FAC_L_CITY. Layer 292 is a Table with no geometry and must be joined to layer 294 via PLA_ICIS_ID. Most Solid Waste Permits are Revoked (881 of 1397). The EDMA gateway has historically returned transient 500/502/HTML, so the handler retries once. Last verified live 2026-05-07.

Requirements

Toggle on
Toggle on and use, no setup needed.

Setup

A few steps to connect your AI agents to VA Department of Environmental Quality.

Get started

1
Toggle Connector On
Open /mcp and enable VA Department of Environmental Quality with the toggle, no credentials needed.
2
Start Querying
Call searchSolidWastePermits with permitStatus: 'Permitted' for live landfills, or searchAirEmissions with pollutant: 'NOX' and minTpy: 100 to find the largest NOX emitters in 2024.

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 VA Department of Environmental Quality connector is ready to use in Claude.