US Department of Defense Projects API

USACE projects and reservoirs

OpenAPI Specification

us-department-of-defense-projects-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: USACE Corps Water Management System Data Catalog Projects API
  description: The Corps Water Management System Data API (CDA) is a REST service providing programmatic access to USACE water management data. It supports retrieval of time series measurements, monitoring locations, rating curves, reservoir pool levels, lock data, and operational information across Army Corps of Engineers projects. Public data is accessible without authentication; write operations require an API key.
  version: latest
  contact:
    url: https://cwms-data.usace.army.mil/cwms-data/
  license:
    name: US Government Work
    url: https://www.usa.gov/government-works
servers:
- url: https://cwms-data.usace.army.mil/cwms-data/api/latest
  description: National CWMS Data API Production Server
- url: https://water.usace.army.mil/cwms-data/api/latest
  description: USACE Water Data Production Server
tags:
- name: Projects
  description: USACE projects and reservoirs
paths:
  /projects:
    get:
      operationId: getProjects
      summary: Get USACE Projects
      description: Returns USACE projects such as reservoirs, navigation projects, and flood control structures with their operational parameters.
      tags:
      - Projects
      parameters:
      - name: office
        in: query
        description: Filter by USACE district office ID
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: project-id-mask
        in: query
        description: Pattern mask to filter project IDs
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of USACE projects
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
  /pools:
    get:
      operationId: getPools
      summary: Get Reservoir Pools
      description: Returns reservoir pool definitions including storage zones, flood control pools, and conservation pools for USACE projects.
      tags:
      - Projects
      parameters:
      - name: office
        in: query
        description: USACE district office ID
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: project-id-mask
        in: query
        description: Pattern mask to filter project IDs
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: name-mask
        in: query
        description: Pattern mask to filter pool names
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: unit
        in: query
        description: Unit system for output values
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Reservoir pool definitions
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object