Military Base Contamination in California
35 installations in California are profiled on this site for documented environmental contamination. Each page covers what was found, the cleanup status, and the health concerns for those who served there.
Beale Air Force Base
A profile of contamination concerns and environmental cleanup at Beale Air Force Base in California.
Castle Air Force Base
Castle Air Force Base, a former SAC training base near Merced, California, is an EPA Superfund site where TCE, other solvents, and PFAS have been documented in soil and groundwater.
Edwards Air Force Base
The Air Force flight test center in the Mojave Desert, a Superfund site since 1990 with solvents, jet fuel, and PFAS documented in soil and groundwater.
Fort Hunter Liggett
Fort Hunter Liggett, an Army Reserve training installation in California, has documented groundwater solvent and PFAS concerns.
Fort Irwin National Training Center
Fort Irwin is an Army desert training center in California's Mojave Desert under a DoD PFAS assessment and state cleanup oversight.
Fort Ord
A former Army training center on Monterey Bay, closed in 1994 and designated a Superfund site for soil and groundwater contamination.
George Air Force Base
George Air Force Base in Victorville, California, a closed fighter training base and EPA Superfund site, has documented TCE, PCE, benzene, jet fuel, and PFAS contamination.
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, a Superfund site since 1989, has documented radiation, PCB, heavy metal, and solvent contamination, with cleanup still unresolved.
Joint Forces Training Base Los Alamitos
A California National Guard joint training base in Orange County where testing found very high PFAS levels in water.
March Air Reserve Base
Groundwater contamination with TCE, PCE, jet fuel, and solvents at March Air Reserve Base in California has raised concerns about potential health effects for veterans and nearby residents.
Mare Island Naval Shipyard
A profile of the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California, and the environmental concerns tied to its cleanup.
Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms
A look at documented contaminant concerns and the ongoing environmental cleanup at the Marine Corps base in Twentynine Palms, California.
Marine Corps Air Station El Toro
TCE, PCBs, solvents, and jet fuel contaminated soil and groundwater at MCAS El Toro in California, a Superfund site where cleanup is expected to continue for decades.
Marine Corps Air Station Miramar
A San Diego Marine Corps air station with documented PFAS contamination from firefighting foam and ongoing cleanup.
Marine Corps Air Station Tustin
Fuels and solvents from helicopter and blimp operations at the former MCAS Tustin in California contaminated soil and groundwater with TCE and other VOCs, and Navy-led cleanup continues today.
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
Camp Pendleton, an EPA Superfund site since 1989, has documented PFAS, TCE, and solvent contamination tied to decades of waste disposal and firefighting foam use.
Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow
An overview of documented soil and groundwater contamination at Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, a federal Superfund site in California.
Mather Air Force Base
Mather Air Force Base, a former navigator training installation near Sacramento, California, is a Superfund site where TCE and other solvents contaminated groundwater.
McClellan Air Force Base
A former Air Force logistics hub near Sacramento, now a Superfund site contaminated with solvents, heavy metals, and PCBs.
Military Ocean Terminal Concord
A former Navy weapons station now an Army ocean terminal in California, listed as a Superfund site in 1994.
Naval Air Station Alameda
Former Navy airfield on San Francisco Bay where solvents, fuels, PCBs, radium, and heavy metals from decades of aircraft work led to a 1999 Superfund listing.
Naval Air Station Lemoore
A profile of PFAS and related water contamination concerns at Naval Air Station Lemoore, the Navy's largest master jet base in California.
Naval Air Station Moffett Field
Decades of naval aviation at Moffett Field in California left TCE, PCE, and PCBs in soil and groundwater, placing the base on the EPA Superfund list in 1987.
Naval Air Station North Island
Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, California faces scrutiny over the Fiery Marsh dump and groundwater contamination.
Naval Base Point Loma
Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego has documented solvent, metal, jet fuel and PFAS contamination under state-regulated cleanup.
Naval Base San Diego
Naval Base San Diego is a major Navy surface ship base where decades of shipyard work have prompted environmental cleanup.
Naval Base Ventura County
A look at documented PFAS, fuel, and solvent contamination at Naval Base Ventura County in California and what it may mean for veterans.
Naval Station Treasure Island
The former Navy training station in San Francisco Bay hosted nuclear warfare academies whose radium and cesium-137 contamination has prompted an ongoing state-supervised cleanup as the island is redeveloped.
Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach
A look at documented environmental contamination at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach and the ongoing Navy cleanup program.
Norton Air Force Base
Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, California operated from 1942 to 1994 and was placed on the EPA Superfund list in 1987 after TCE, PCBs, and other contaminants were found in soil and groundwater.
Riverbank Army Ammunition Plant
A former Army munitions plant near Modesto, California, listed as an EPA Superfund site in 1990, primarily over heavy-metal groundwater contamination.
Sacramento Army Depot
Sacramento Army Depot was a California electronics repair installation later listed as an EPA Superfund site for solvent and metal contamination.
Sharpe Army Depot
Sharpe Army Depot near Lathrop, California is an NPL Superfund site where groundwater was contaminated with TCE and other solvents.
Travis Air Force Base
Travis Air Force Base near Fairfield, California, an EPA Superfund site since 1989, has documented TCE, benzene, heavy metal and PFAS contamination in groundwater, soil and Union Creek.
Vandenberg Space Force Base
Vandenberg Space Force Base in California has documented PFAS contamination being addressed under the CERCLA cleanup process.