---
title: "EPA Sole Source Aquifer designation context"
method: POST
path: "/api/locus_sole_source_aquifer"
tags: ["groundwater", "water", "aquifer", "ssa", "epa", "federal-register", "read-only", "free", "free"]
---

# EPA Sole Source Aquifer designation context

`POST /api/locus_sole_source_aquifer`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.locus.report`
- URL: `https://api.locus.report/api/locus_sole_source_aquifer`
- Auth: none required

EPA Sole Source Aquifer designations at an address or point, with region, link, and Federal Register citation. EPA reviews federally funded projects under SDWA 1424(e), not private permits. A clean negative needs a validated current snapshot; stale data is explicit. Includes Guam, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.
Use this when you can call Locus free tools (REST tools/call or MCP).
Use locus-sole-source-aquifer instead when your client can only call paid x402 routes; it returns the same records. Direct flat-body route for this one free resource; no API key, payment, or catalog wrapper. Return only the cited bounded evidence described here; this route never produces a paid brief or full report.

## Request body

- object
  - `address` string: Optional US street address or place; NC uses AddressNC first, other areas use the national geocoder fallback when latitude/longitude are not provided.
  - `latitude` number: Optional decimal latitude; provide with longitude to skip address geocoding.
  - `longitude` number: Optional decimal longitude; provide with latitude to skip address geocoding.

## Response `200`

Free cited evidence response.

- object

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid request body.
- `429`: Rate limited.

---

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