PatchOps

Available tools

5 tools

Tool	Description
`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.

About

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, agency-published data. Probed 2026-05-02. Note: the native agency host was UNREACHABLE during external probe, so the 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 a 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--A--=active permit, ----S=storage), VCUP/NAD voluntary cleanup applications (~1,674, AppStatus: APPROVAL 1465 / WITHDRAWN 56 / DENIAL 38 / PENDING 24 / INELIGIBLE 3; Applctn: NAD 1041 / VCUP 633), CDPHE Superfund / NPL Sites (~31 polygons, SiteStatus includes 'NPL ACTIVE').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 oddly (`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), which the handler nulls. RCRA County is UPPERCASE (`BOULDER`); the handler title-cases on output. RCRA `maxRecordCount` is 1000 (lower than other CDPHE layers' 2000). The air-pollution facility layer has only 5 fields (Airs_ID/Facility/Latitude/Longitude/Date_Data_Published), so the county filter is NOT exposed (it would silently drop everything); use bbox/near.

Requirements

ENABLE_ENVIRONMENTAL_APIS
Set ENABLE_ENVIRONMENTAL_APIS=true to allow connector toggles.

Setup

A few steps to connect your AI agents to CO Department of Public Health & Environment.

Get started

1
Enable Environmental APIs
Set ENABLE_ENVIRONMENTAL_APIS=true for your deployment.
2
Toggle Connector On
Open /mcp and turn on CO Department of Public Health & Environment with the environmental switch.
3
Start Querying
Call the co-cdphe MCP tool, start with method=searchAirQualitySites or method=searchVoluntaryCleanup.

Connect to your AI assistant

Pick the tool your team uses for the exact setup steps.

1
Open Claude settings
Launch Claude, click the profile button (bottom left), and go to Settings.
2
Access connectors
Open the Connectors tab, scroll to the bottom, and click “Add custom connector”.
3
Name your connector
Enter any name you’d like for this connector.
4
Get the connector URL
Log in to PatchOps, open the /mcp page, and copy the connector URL you want to use.
5
Add the connector
Paste the URL into the “Remote MCP server URL” box and click Add.
6
Start using
Your CO Department of Public Health & Environment connector is ready to use in Claude.