Military Base Contamination in Texas
15 installations in Texas 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.
Air Force Plant 4
Air Force Plant 4 is a Superfund aircraft plant in Fort Worth, Texas, with a documented TCE groundwater plume and a PFAS investigation.
Dyess Air Force Base
Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene, Texas has been associated with PFAS groundwater contamination tied to firefighting foam.
Fort Bliss
Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas has been associated with PFAS concerns tied to past firefighting foam use.
Fort Hood
A major Army training hub in Killeen, Texas, with concerns about PFAS, AFFF, PCBs, and asbestos exposure on base.
Goodfellow Air Force Base
A look at PFAS concerns from firefighting foam in wells near Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas.
Joint Base San Antonio
The 2010 merger of Randolph AFB, Lackland AFB, and Fort Sam Houston, with exposure concerns spanning all three legacy installations.
Laughlin Air Force Base
Laughlin Air Force Base near Del Rio, Texas is among installations the Department of Defense is assessing for possible PFAS related to firefighting foam.
Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant
A former Army munitions plant near Texarkana, Texas, listed as a federal Superfund site in 1987 for soil contamination and later remediated.
Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant
A former Army munitions and rocket-motor plant near Caddo Lake in Karnack, Texas, listed as a Superfund site in 1990.
Naval Air Station Corpus Christi
Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, a Navy flight training base in Texas, has been associated with PFAS concerns tied to AFFF firefighting foam.
Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth (Carswell Field)
Profile of NAS JRB Fort Worth (Carswell Field), where a TCE groundwater plume and PFAS investigations raise exposure concerns.
Naval Air Station Kingsville
Naval Air Station Kingsville is a Navy jet training base in Texas under investigation for PFAS in groundwater.
Red River Army Depot
A look at documented solvent, metals, and PFAS contamination concerns at Red River Army Depot in Bowie County, Texas.
Reese Air Force Base
A former Air Force pilot-training base near Lubbock, Texas, where PFAS was detected in hundreds of nearby private wells.
Sheppard Air Force Base
Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas has been associated with PFAS contamination linked to firefighting foam use.