PatchOps

Available tools

9 tools

Tool	Description
`searchWells`	WVDEP O&G wells (~153K). Filter county (name → FIPS), operator, status, wellType, formation, marcellus/horizontal flags.
`searchPermits`	WV drilling permits ordered by issuedate desc. Filter county, operator, permitType, status, yearFrom/yearTo.
`searchAirEmissionSources`	Air-permit facilities (~2.6K). Filter facilityName/industry/naicCode/sourceHierarchy/city. NO county column.
`searchAbandonedMineLands`	AMLPoints (~10K). Filter padNumber/padName/problemKey (P/DI/HEF/WA/VO)/status (A/U/E). NO county column.
`searchRemediationSites`	Voluntary Remediation Sites + SEMS Superfund tracking. layer: vrp \| sems \| both. SEMS has UPPERCASE county; VRP no county.
`searchMiningReclamation`	DMR mining permits (~11K). Filter permittee/permitType (Coal Surface/Underground/Quarry)/permitStatus/inspectionStatus. NO county column.
`searchDamSafety`	Dams (~395). Filter damName/hazardCode (H=High/S=Significant/L=Low/N/U)/nationalId. NO county column.
`searchWatershedAssessment`	303(d) impaired streams (~34K polylines). Filter reachName + cause (bio/fecal/ph/aluminum/iron/selenium/manganese/dioxin/pcbs).
`getServiceInfo`	Schema + record counts for any of 9 layers. Returns _enterpriseFolder summary listing all 11 thematic services.

About

West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) consolidated connector, a single connector spanning O&G, air, water, mining, dam safety, remediation, and watershed because WVDEP runs an exceptionally clean enterprise server with 11 thematic services in one folder at `agency data services/` (probed 2026-05-02). This is the heart of the Marcellus, where EQT Production, Antero Resources, Range Resources, and Southwestern Energy operate heavily. Layers consumed: layer 7 'All DEP Wells' (~153,267, the primary inventory), layer 0 'Horizontal Wells' (~9,406), layer 7 'All Facilities' (~2,569), layer 1 'AMLPoints' (~9,989), layer 2 'Voluntary Remediation Sites' (~364), layer 14 'SEMS Sites' (~831 Superfund tracking), layer 0 'DMR permits' (~11,524), layer 0 (~395 with H/S/L/N/U hazard codes), and layer 15 '303(d) impaired streams' (~34,199 polylines). Upstream quirks (probed): county on oil_gas wells is the 3-digit FIPS suffix ('103' = Wetzel, full FIPS 54103). The handler accepts a county name on input via the WV_COUNTY_FIPS table and surfaces Title-Case county on output. The SEMS Sites layer has 10-character truncated column names ('f_'=Federal Facility, 'site_statu', 'wvdep_prog', 'descriptio', 'contaminat'), and the SEMS county column is uppercase ('CABELL'), unlike the FIPS-coded wells. dam_safety downstream_hazard distinct: H=271, S=70, L=21, N=5, U=28; damclassification 1/2/3/4/U. The oil_gas wells `marcellus` field is a 'y'/'n'/'u' string (133K unknown, 11K no, 8K yes), surfaced as boolean. Geometry is Web Mercator (102100), which the handler always uses. welltype distinct: Vertical=140,983, Horizontal 6A=6,832, Horizontal=2,574, CBM=2,336, and the handler matches both 'Horizontal' and 'Horizontal 6A' via UPPER LIKE. The spec mentioned permittype/permitstatus columns for mining_reclamation/0, but the actual columns are type/per_status (type: Prospect=4342, Coal Surface Mine=2983, Coal Underground=2564; per_status: Completely Released=8219, Renewed=1038, Revoked=798, Active=15). AML status has bracketed variants ('A'/'[A]', 'U'/'[U]', 'E'/'[E]'), and the handler accepts both. The Air, AML, VRP, Mining, Dam, and Watershed layers have no county column, so they support bbox/near only. maxRecordCount varies: oil_gas=3000, mining_reclamation=5000, others=2000.

Requirements

ENABLE_ENVIRONMENTAL_APIS
Set ENABLE_ENVIRONMENTAL_APIS=true to allow connector toggles.

Setup

A few steps to connect your AI agents to WV Dept of Environmental Protection (consolidated).

Get started

1
Enable Environmental APIs
Set ENABLE_ENVIRONMENTAL_APIS=true for your deployment.
2
Toggle Connector On
Open /mcp and turn on WV Dept of Environmental Protection with the environmental switch.
3
Start Querying
Call the wv-dep MCP tool, start with method=searchWells or method=searchPermits.

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 WV Dept of Environmental Protection (consolidated) connector is ready to use in Claude.