Is there an API for EPA Community Water System Service Areas?

EPA Community Water System Service Areas does not offer a public data API for this, but Anakin Wire provides 2 maintained endpoints for services3.arcgis.com. You call Anakin's REST API with an action ID and parameters and get structured JSON back; Anakin handles the browser, proxies, anti-bot, and parsing.

How do I scrape EPA Community Water System Service Areas data?

POST to https://api.anakin.io/v1/wire/task with your API key, the action ID, and its parameters, then poll GET /v1/wire/jobs/{id} until the job settles. There is nothing to install and no scraper to maintain — when services3.arcgis.com changes its markup, Anakin updates the action.

Do I need a EPA Community Water System Service Areas account?

No. Every EPA Community Water System Service Areas action listed here runs anonymously — no account and no credentials required.

What does the EPA Community Water System Service Areas API cost?

Usage-based credits, charged per call and refunded automatically when a job fails. New accounts start with 300 free credits and no card. See anakin.io/pricing for the current rates.

Utilities

EPA Community Water System Service Areas API

services3.arcgis.com

Nationwide community water system service area boundaries (~44,000 systems) from EPA/ArcGIS, plus SDWIS attributes.

Actions: 2
Category: Utilities
Login: Not required
Output: JSON

Get an API key Wire API reference

Call the EPA Community Water System Service Areas API

Submit a task, then poll the job until it settles. This example runs act_services3_arcgis_com_find_systems_by_location.

curl -X POST https://api.anakin.io/v1/wire/task \
  -H "X-API-Key: $ANAKIN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "action_id": "act_services3_arcgis_com_find_systems_by_location",
    "params": {
      "latitude": 38.9072,
      "longitude": -77.0369
    }
  }'

2 actions on services3.arcgis.com

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Find community water systems by location
act_services3_arcgis_com_find_systems_by_locationread1 credit / call
Given a latitude/longitude or a US street address (geocoded via the Census Bureau), return every community water system whose service area contains that point: PWSID, name, state, population served, service connections, primary source, service area type, boundary method, and owner type. Empty list means none covers the point (likely an on-site well).
latitude
number · required
longitude
number · required
address
string
Get water system by PWSID
act_services3_arcgis_com_get_system_by_pwsidread1 credit / call
Look up a community water system service-area record by its Public Water System ID (PWSID). Returns name, state, population served, service connections, primary source, service area type, boundary method, and owner type.
pwsid
string · required