CO Department of Public Health & Environment

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Colorado CDPHE — Front-Range air quality + hazardous waste + voluntary cleanup + Superfund. ~15.7K APCD facilities, ~6.1K RCRA handlers, ~1.7K VCUP/NAD applications, ~31 NPL sites.

What is CO Department of Public Health & Environment?

Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE). Front-Range air-quality monitoring (CDPHE has aggressive O&G emissions oversight), hazardous waste, voluntary cleanup, Superfund. Multi-server: AGOL hosted services on `services3.arcgis.com/66aUo8zsujfVXRIT` (CDPHE_hmwmd_admin / CDPHE_user_community / CDPHE_EJP owners) + native ArcGIS at `cohealthmaps.dphe.state.co.us` (APCD/HMWMD/WQCD/OPEN_DATA/EPHT/DEHS folders). Probed 2026-05-02. **Note**: native `maps.dphe.state.co.us` was UNREACHABLE during external probe — handler routes around it. Datasets: APCD All Active Air Pollution Emitting Facilities (~15,678 — slim 5-field schema, no County), APCD CCND Continuous Monitoring Sites (~359 — Pollutant parameter labeled per site like 'HCN', 'PM2.5'), RCRA Active Hazardous Waste Handler (~6,075 — Generator_Status: VSG=4775 / SQG=587 / N=573 / LQG=140; Active_Site is 5-char flag string H----=hazardous handler, --A--=active permit, ----S=storage), VCUP/NAD voluntary cleanup applications (~1,674 — AppStatus: APPROVAL 1465 / WITHDRAWN 56 / DENIAL 38 / PENDING 24 / INELIGIBLE 3; Applctn: NAD 1041 / VCUP 633), CDPHE Superfund / NPL Sites (~31 polygons — SiteStatus includes 'NPL ACTIVE'). VCUP layer field names are abbreviated weirdly (`CityNam` not City, `Cnss_Tr` not CensusTract, `RV_Nmbr` not ReviewNumber, `Othr_Is` not OtherIssues). Some VCUP records have geometry x=0/y=0 (no spatial location) — null'd by handler. RCRA County is UPPERCASE (`BOULDER`) — handler title-cases on output. RCRA `maxRecordCount` is 1000 (lower than other CDPHE layers' 2000). Air-pollution facility layer has only 5 fields (Airs_ID/Facility/Latitude/Longitude/Date_Data_Published) — county filter NOT exposed (would silently drop everything); use bbox/near.

Available Tools

searchAirQualitySites
APCD facilities (~15.7K) + CCND continuous monitors (~359) merged. Filter facility/parameter/bbox/near.
searchHazardousWasteFacilities
CDPHE RCRA Active Hazardous Waste Handlers (~6.1K). Filter county/handlerName/generatorStatus.
searchVoluntaryCleanup
CDPHE VCUP + NAD voluntary cleanup applications (~1.7K). Filter site/application/appStatus/city.
searchSuperfundSites
CDPHE Superfund / NPL polygon sites (~31). Filter name/siteStatus/city. Centroid lat/lon.
getServiceInfo
Schema + record counts for any of the 5 services.

Requirements

ENABLE_ENVIRONMENTAL_APIS
Set ENABLE_ENVIRONMENTAL_APIS=true to allow connector toggles.

Quick Setup Guide

Follow these steps to connect your AI agents to this connector

Set ENABLE_ENVIRONMENTAL_APIS=true for your deployment.

Open /mcp and turn on CO Department of Public Health & Environment with the environmental switch.

Call the co-cdphe MCP tool — start with method=searchAirQualitySites or method=searchVoluntaryCleanup.

Connect to Your AI Assistant

Choose your AI assistant below for specific setup instructions

Follow these steps to connect CO Department of Public Health & Environment to Claude:

Step 1: Open Claude Settings

Launch Claude → Click the profile button (bottom left) → Navigate to Settings

Step 2: Access Connectors

Scroll down to the Connectors tab → Navigate to the bottom → Click “Add Custom Connector”

Step 3: Name Your Connector

Enter any name you'd like for this connector

Step 4: Get the Connector URL

Step 5: Add the Connector

Paste the URL in the “Remote MCP Server URL” text box → Click Add

Step 6: Start Using

Your connector is now ready to use in Claude

Follow these steps to connect CO Department of Public Health & Environment to ChatGPT:

Step 1: Enable Developer Mode

Go to Settings → Connectors → Advanced → Enable Developer mode

Step 2: Create New Connector

Go back to Connectors page → Click “Create” (top right)

Step 3: Name Your Connector

Enter any name you'd like for this connector (descriptions are optional)

Step 4: Get the Connector URL

Step 5: Add the URL

Paste the URL in the “MCP Server URL” text box

Step 6: Set Authentication

Click the authentication dropdown → Select “No authentication” (PatchOps handles authentication internally)

Step 7: Create the Connector

Click “I understand and want to continue” checkbox → Press Create

Step 8: Using the Connector

Start a new chat → Click the + button (left of text box) → Open dropdown → Hover over three dots labeled “More” → Select your connector

Instructions for connecting CO Department of Public Health & Environment to GitHub Copilot:

Coming Soon

Detailed setup instructions for GitHub Copilot will be added here.

For other MCP-compatible platforms:

Step 1: Get the Connector URL

Step 2: Add to Configuration

Add this configuration to your MCP settings file. Replace the URL with your specific connector URL from the /mcp page:

"CO Department of Public Health & Environment-MCP": {
  "url": "https://patchops.ai/api/mcp/...",
  "type": "http"
}

Example Configuration

Here’s an example using PatchOps MCP:

"PatchOps-MCP": {
  "url": "https://patchops.ai/api/mcp/...",
  "type": "http"
}