Heavy Metals

Air Force Plant 85

A former 420-acre Air Force aircraft plant in Columbus, Ohio, where decades of manufacturing contaminated soil and groundwater.

Badger Army Ammunition Plant

Badger Army Ammunition Plant in Sauk County, Wisconsin produced military propellants and left widespread groundwater contamination now under cleanup.

Camp Bonneville

Camp Bonneville was a former Army training reservation near Vancouver, Washington, with documented RDX, perchlorate, and lead contamination.

Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center (Ravenna Army Ammunition Plant)

A former Ohio ammunition plant, now an Army National Guard training center, with documented explosives, PFAS, metals and PCB contamination.

Former Naval Air Station Glenview

Former Navy air station in Glenview, Illinois, where landfill PCB, metal, and other contamination has prompted an ongoing Navy cleanup.

Former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard

The former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, a historic Navy installation closed under BRAC, has been associated with several environmental contaminants.

Fort Crowder (Camp Crowder)

Former Army Signal Corps training center near Neosho, Missouri, now a Formerly Used Defense Site with documented TCE and solvent contamination.

Fort Huachuca

Fort Huachuca is an Army intelligence post near Sierra Vista, Arizona where PFAS and other contaminants have been documented.

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 Jackson

Fort Jackson, the Army's largest basic training post, has documented PFAS, RDX, TCE and metals in its environment.

Fort Wingate Depot Activity

Fort Wingate Depot Activity, an inactive Army munitions depot near Gallup, New Mexico, with documented soil and groundwater contamination.

Gopher Ordnance Works (Rosemount)

A former WWII Army smokeless gunpowder plant in Rosemount, Minnesota now being investigated and cleaned up as UMore Park.

Hancock Field Air National Guard Base

Hancock Field is a New York Air National Guard base near Syracuse with documented contamination and ongoing state and military cleanup.

Indiana Army Ammunition Plant

A former Army propellant plant near Charlestown, Indiana, where explosives manufacturing left lasting soil and groundwater contamination.

Kansas Army Ammunition Plant

A former Army munitions plant near Parsons, Kansas, where explosives contamination has been addressed under EPA and state oversight.

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 Base Hawaii

An overview of environmental contamination concerns, including PFAS and AFFF, at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay.

Marine Corps Base Quantico

An overview of documented environmental contamination at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, and what it may mean for veterans.

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 Amphibious Base Little Creek

A look at documented contamination and Superfund cleanup at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek in Virginia Beach.

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 Weapons Station Seal Beach

A look at documented environmental contamination at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach and the ongoing Navy cleanup program.

Newport Chemical Depot

Newport Chemical Depot, a former Army facility near Newport, Indiana, produced explosives and VX nerve agent.

Pine Bluff Arsenal

Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas is an active Army chemical and munitions installation now undergoing environmental cleanup.

U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot

A former U.S. Army chemical-weapons storage depot in Pueblo County, Colorado, with documented contamination concerns and ongoing groundwater cleanup.

Red River Army Depot

A look at documented solvent, metals, and PFAS contamination concerns at Red River Army Depot in Bowie County, Texas.

Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base

An overview of environmental contaminants and cleanup history at the former Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base in Missouri.

Rock Island Arsenal

A profile of environmental contaminant concerns and ongoing cleanup at Rock Island Arsenal, an Army weapons manufacturing installation in Illinois.

Rosecrans Air National Guard Base

Rosecrans Air National Guard Base in St. Joseph, Missouri has documented fuel, solvent, and metal contamination, with PFAS raised as a concern.

Seymour Johnson Air Force Base

A profile of documented contaminant concerns at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, North Carolina.

St. Louis Army Ammunition Plant

A former Army ammunition plant on Goodfellow Boulevard in St. Louis where explosive residues, heavy metals, and PCBs have been documented.

Stones Ranch Military Reservation

Stones Ranch Military Reservation is a Connecticut Army National Guard training site in East Lyme where PFAS was detected in drinking water, raising environmental exposure concerns.

Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant

A former Army propellant plant near De Soto, Kansas, where soil and groundwater contamination is being addressed under a long-running KDHE-overseen cleanup.

Tyson Valley Powder Farm

A former Army ordnance storage and testing site near Eureka, Missouri, now a Formerly Used Defense Site under investigation.

Watervliet Arsenal

A look at documented soil and groundwater contamination at the Army's Watervliet Arsenal in New York and what it may mean for veterans.

Adak Naval Air Station

A former 76,000-acre Navy installation in the Aleutians, placed on the EPA Superfund list in 1994 over fuel, PCB, and solvent contamination.

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.

Alabama Army Ammunition Plant

A former World War II explosives plant near Childersburg, Alabama, listed on the EPA Superfund National Priorities List in 1987.

Allegany Ballistics Laboratory

A Navy rocket-propellant and energetics complex in West Virginia where solvent and explosives use left groundwater contamination.

Defense Depot Ogden

Defense Depot Ogden in Weber County, Utah is an EPA Superfund site where solvents, PCBs and metals affected soil and groundwater.

Defense Supply Center Richmond

Defense Supply Center Richmond, a Virginia logistics depot, was listed as a Superfund site in 1987 over soil and groundwater contamination.

Francis E. Warren Air Force Base

A look at documented contamination concerns at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, a Wyoming Superfund site.

Homestead Air Reserve Base

A look at documented environmental contamination at Homestead Air Reserve Base in Miami-Dade County, Florida, a Superfund site.

Idaho National Laboratory

Idaho National Laboratory is an 890 square mile DOE nuclear research site near Idaho Falls listed as a Superfund site in 1989.

Indian Head Naval Surface Warfare Center

An active Navy energetics R&D site in Charles County, Maryland, added to the EPA Superfund National Priorities List in 1995.

Iowa Army Ammunition Plant

A 19,000 acre Army munitions plant near Middletown, Iowa, listed as a Superfund site in 1990 for explosives, metals, solvents, and depleted uranium.

Jackson Park Housing Complex

A Navy housing complex near Bremerton on a former ammunition depot, listed as a Superfund site in 1994 over soil and sediment contamination.

Joliet Army Ammunition Plant

A former Army munitions plant in Will County, Illinois with two NPL Superfund areas tied to explosives, solvents, PCBs and metals.

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.

Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant

A former Army munitions plant in Webster Parish, Louisiana, listed on the EPA Superfund NPL in 1989 for explosives and solvents in groundwater.

Luke Air Force Base

Luke Air Force Base, an active Arizona fighter-pilot training installation, has been associated with solvent, fuel, metal, and PFAS contamination.

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 Logistics Base Barstow

An overview of documented soil and groundwater contamination at Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, a federal Superfund site in California.

Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island

Parris Island, a Marine Corps recruit depot in South Carolina, has documented PCE, PCB, and heavy metal contamination.

Military Ocean Terminal Concord

A former Navy weapons station now an Army ocean terminal in California, listed as a Superfund site in 1994.

Natick Soldier Systems Center

Natick Soldier Systems Center in Massachusetts is an Army research facility placed on the Superfund National Priorities List in 1994.

Former Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster (Naval Air Development Center)

The former Naval Air Development Center in Warminster, Pennsylvania is a Superfund site with documented groundwater, solvent, and PFAS contamination.

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 Kitsap-Bangor

A Navy submarine base on Hood Canal in Washington with two Superfund listings and ongoing PFAS investigations.

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 Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific

A Navy communications station at Wahiawa, Oahu placed on the EPA Superfund list in 1994 for PCBs and other soil contaminants.

Naval Construction Battalion Center Davisville

A former Navy Seabee base in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, listed as a Superfund site in 1989 for soil and groundwater contamination.

Naval Education and Training Center Newport

An overview of documented contamination and ongoing federal cleanup at the Navy's education and training complex in Newport, Rhode Island.

Naval Magazine Indian Island

A Navy ordnance facility near Port Townsend, Washington, listed as a Superfund site in 1994 over landfill and spill contamination.

Naval Submarine Base New London

Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut is a Superfund site where solvents, metals, PCBs and PFAS have been documented.

Naval Support Activity Mechanicsburg

A Navy supply installation in Pennsylvania listed on the Superfund NPL for groundwater and soil contamination.

Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division

An overview of documented contamination and ongoing Superfund cleanup at the Navy weapons-testing facility in Dahlgren, Virginia.

Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport

A Navy torpedo and undersea systems facility in Kitsap County, Washington, listed as a Superfund site with documented soil, groundwater, and sediment contamination.

Naval Weapons Station Earle

A Navy munitions base in Monmouth County, New Jersey, listed as a Superfund site in 1990 for solvent, metal, and PFAS contamination.

Naval Weapons Station Yorktown

Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, a Navy ordnance station in Virginia, is an EPA Superfund site with documented soil and groundwater contamination.

Naval Weapons Station Yorktown - Cheatham Annex

A Navy munitions support annex in York County, Virginia, listed as a Superfund site in 2001 for explosives and other contamination.

Naval Station Norfolk (Sewells Point Naval Complex)

Naval Station Norfolk is a Superfund site where PFAS, PCBs, solvents, and metals have been documented during ongoing cleanup.

Norfolk Naval Shipyard

Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, a Superfund site listed in 1999 with documented PCB, heavy metal, and solvent contamination.

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine is a former Superfund site associated with PCBs, metals, benzene, and PFAS.

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.

Rocky Flats Plant

Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado made plutonium nuclear-weapon components and left documented radioactive and chemical 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.

Savanna Army Depot Activity

A former 13,000 acre Army proof, test, and ordnance storage depot in Illinois, listed as a Superfund site in 1989.

Seneca Army Depot

Seneca Army Depot in Romulus, New York stored and demilitarized munitions for decades, leaving soil and creek sediments contaminated.

Sharpe Army Depot

Sharpe Army Depot near Lathrop, California is an NPL Superfund site where groundwater was contaminated with TCE and other solvents.

Tomah Armory (Wisconsin Army National Guard)

A Wisconsin Army National Guard armory built on a former Tomah city landfill where lead contaminated soil and groundwater.

Minneapolis-St. Paul Joint Air Reserve Station (Twin Cities Air Force Reserve Base, Small Arms Range Landfill)

A 2-acre former base landfill in Minnesota where groundwater contamination led to an EPA Superfund (NPL) listing in 1987.

Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant

A former Army small-arms ammunition plant in Minnesota with documented soil and groundwater contamination concerns.

U.S. Air Force Plant 44

A federally owned missile plant south of Tucson where solvents and PFAS have been associated with groundwater contamination.

Watertown Arsenal (Army Materials Technology Laboratory)

A former Army arsenal and materials research lab in Watertown, Massachusetts, listed as a Superfund site in 1994 and deleted in 2006.

Weldon Spring Ordnance Works

A former WWII Army TNT and DNT plant in St. Charles County, Missouri, with documented explosives, metals, and radioactive contamination.

West Virginia Ordnance Works

A former WWII Army TNT plant near Point Pleasant, West Virginia, now a Superfund site and wildlife management area.

Williams Air Force Base (Former)

Former Williams Air Force Base near Mesa, Arizona is an EPA Superfund site with documented soil and groundwater contamination.

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 McClellan

Fort McClellan, the former home of the Army Chemical Corps School in Anniston, Alabama, has been associated with TCE, PCE, PCB, heavy metal, and radiological contamination concerns.

Lake City Army Ammunition Plant

Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Missouri, a Superfund site since 1987, has documented TCE, solvent, PCB, heavy metal, and asbestos contamination from decades of munitions production.

Memphis Defense Depot

Memphis Defense Depot, a 642-acre DLA supply installation in south Memphis, has been associated with TCE, PCE, solvent, and heavy metal contamination and was added to the Superfund list in 1992.

Naval Air Station Patuxent River

PFAS, firefighting foam, solvents, and heavy metals have been documented at this Maryland Superfund-listed naval aviation test center on the Chesapeake Bay.

Naval Air Station Pensacola

NAS Pensacola, the Navy's first air station, was added to the Superfund list in 1989 after solvents, heavy metals, radium waste, and later PFAS were documented in soil and groundwater.

Robins Air Force Base

Robins Air Force Base in Georgia includes a Superfund site where solvents, heavy metals, and cyanide reached groundwater, and 2018 testing found PFAS in shallow groundwater far above federal health advisories.

Tyndall Air Force Base

Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, an EPA Superfund site since 1997, has documented PFAS, AFFF, and heavy metal contamination, with cleanup ongoing under federal and state oversight.

Dover Air Force Base

Dover Air Force Base in Delaware is an EPA Superfund site where groundwater solvents, benzene, arsenic, and PFAS from firefighting foam have raised concerns about potential health effects.

Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant Bethpage

TCE and other solvents from the Navy-owned, Grumman-operated Bethpage plant created Long Island's largest groundwater plume, now spanning more than 3,000 acres in Nassau County's aquifer.

Tinker Air Force Base

Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, an NPL Superfund site since 1987, has documented groundwater contamination from TCE, PCE, benzene and heavy metals tied to decades of aircraft overhaul work.

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.

Aberdeen Proving Ground

Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, an Army testing installation since 1917, has documented solvent, heavy metal and chemical agent contamination and includes two EPA Superfund sites.

Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant

Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant near Grand Island, Nebraska is a Superfund site where explosives and heavy metal contamination of groundwater and soil have raised potential health concerns.

Fort Devens

Fort Devens, a former Army post in Massachusetts listed as a Superfund site in 1989, has documented TCE, benzene, PCB, heavy metal, and PFAS contamination.

Fort Dix (Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst)

Fort Dix in New Jersey, now part of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, has a documented Superfund landfill with solvent and metal contamination as well as PFAS linked to firefighting foam.

Fort Riley

Fort Riley, a longtime Army post in Kansas, was added to the EPA Superfund list in 1990 after TCE, heavy metals, and other contaminants were found, and PFAS has since been detected on post.

Griffiss Air Force Base

Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, New York is a Superfund site where decades of maintenance and disposal operations left TCE, PCBs and heavy metals in soil and groundwater.

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 Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam

Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii has documented contamination from jet fuel, heavy metals, and solvents, and the Pearl Harbor Naval Complex is an EPA Superfund site.

Letterkenny Army Depot

Letterkenny Army Depot in Pennsylvania hosts two Superfund sites where solvents such as TCE, along with heavy metals and PCBs, contaminated soil and groundwater, and solvent plumes reached residential wells off post.

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 Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove

Groundwater at the former NAS JRB Willow Grove in Pennsylvania tested at 329,500 ppt of combined PFOS and PFOA from firefighting foam, affecting area drinking water and prompting a Superfund cleanup.

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.

Picatinny Arsenal

Picatinny Arsenal, a longtime Army munitions and armaments center in Morris County, New Jersey, is an EPA Superfund site with documented heavy metals, solvent, and PFAS contamination.

Plattsburgh Air Force Base

Former SAC bomber base in Plattsburgh, New York, where TCE, benzene, heavy metals and PFAS contamination led to a 1989 Superfund listing and ongoing cleanup.

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington is an EPA Superfund site where heavy metals, PCBs, and asbestos have raised concerns about potential health risks for workers and veterans.

Redstone Arsenal

Redstone Arsenal, an Army installation near Huntsville, Alabama, is an EPA Superfund site where TCE, solvents, heavy metals, and PFAS have raised potential exposure concerns.

Rocky Mountain Arsenal

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, a former Army chemical weapons and pesticide manufacturing site near Denver, was placed on the EPA Superfund list in 1987 amid concerns about solvents, heavy metals, and pesticide contamination.

Umatilla Chemical Depot

Years of munitions washout at Umatilla Chemical Depot in Oregon left explosives and heavy metals in soil and groundwater, leading to a Superfund cleanup.

McClellan Air Force Base

A former Air Force logistics hub near Sacramento, now a Superfund site contaminated with solvents, heavy metals, and PCBs.