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Water Quality API - US Monitoring Sites and Sample Results

Water Quality Portal data from USGS, EPA and 400+ agencies: monitoring sites by state, county or bounding box (wells, streams, lakes) and sample results such as nitrate, phosphorus, E. coli, lead and pH, with units and dates.

$0.08 per 1,000 rows

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What it returns

Water Quality Portal data from USGS, EPA and 400+ agencies: monitoring sites by state, county or bounding box (wells, streams, lakes) and sample results such as nitrate, phosphorus, E. coli, lead and pH, with units and dates.

Request

POST https://api.pushbuild.com/water-quality-portal/run with a JSON body. Send your key in the X-API-Key header.

FieldTypeDescription
modestring: stations, results Default: "stations".
stateCodestringTwo-digit FIPS, e.g. 55 = Wisconsin
countyCodestringUS:SS:CCC, e.g. US:55:025
siteIdsstringComma separated, e.g. USGS-01646500
bBoxstringwest,south,east,north
characteristicstringe.g. Nitrate, Phosphorus, Escherichia coli, Lead, pH
siteTypestringe.g. Stream, Well, Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
dateFromstringYYYY-MM-DD
dateTostringYYYY-MM-DD
maxItemsintegerMaximum items to return (1-500). Default: 100.

Example

curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/water-quality-portal/run \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"stateCode": "55", "characteristic": "Nitrate", "maxItems": 20}'

Response

{"count": 20, "truncated": false, "seconds": 1.4, "items": [ { ... } ]}

Each call returns up to 500 items. Records that fail validation or are not found are flagged in the items and not charged.

Pricing

Pay only for results returned: $0.08 per 1,000 rows. No charge for errors or empty searches.

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