EPA.Envirofacts package

This Python Package is for getting information from the EPA's Envirofacts api.

Envirofacts api documentation

portions of the api implemented:

• SDWIS (Safe Drinking Water Information System)
• • Water Systems
• • Violations

The included script gets all water safety violations for a state and outputs them into a file in csv format

the script can take the following parameters:

• -q, --quite - disables console output
• -s, -state - state to get violations for (2 letter abbreviation. ie . de, pa, ca, tx, etc.) Default: DE
• -m, --max - maximum rows to return

Prerequisites

Python 3.6.2+

Requests

pip install requests

Installing

From Source

# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/chaosnhatred/epa-envirofacts-api.git

# Go into the repository
cd epa-envirofacts-api

# Run the script to verify functionality (only gets all rows for the state of Delaware [Delaware is set as the default state])
python get_sdwis_data.py

# You should see the following output
====== Water safety violations for the state: Delaware ======
---Getting water system count (step 1/8):  [done] [00:00:02.51]
---Getting 1289 water systems (step 2/8):  [done] [00:00:21.68]
---Getting violation count (step 3/8):  [done] [00:00:05.78]
---Getting 2367 violations (step 4/8):  |####################| 100.0% (1289/1289) [done] [01:15:40.93]
---Parsing water system results (step 5/8):  |####################| 100.0% (1289/1289) [done] [00:00:00.50]
---Parsing violation results (step 6/8):  |####################| 100.0% (3598/3598) [done] [00:00:01.25]
---Saving water system results to watersystems.csv(step 7/8):  [done] [00:00:00.25]
---Saving violation results to violations.csv (step 7/8):  [done] [00:00:00.54]
Script completed in: 01:16:13.45

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

• Bryan Longacre - Initial work - Chaosnhatred

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License