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Air Force Plant 85

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

Arnold Air Force Base

Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee has been associated with PFAS, PCBs, and chlorinated solvent contamination tied to decades of aerospace testing and fire training.

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 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.

Marine Corps Base Quantico

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

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.

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.

Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base

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

Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base

A profile of contamination concerns at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base near Columbus, Ohio, including PFAS, TCE, and fuel.

Rock Island Arsenal

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

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.

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 PJKS

A former Air Force Titan missile assembly and test plant in Jefferson County, Colorado, now an EPA Superfund cleanup site.

Defense Depot Ogden

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

Galena Air Force Station

A former Air Force forward operating base on the Yukon River in Alaska with documented fuel, solvent, and PFAS contamination.

Homestead Air Reserve Base

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

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.

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 Recruit Depot Parris Island

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

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 Cecil Field

A former Navy master jet base near Jacksonville, Florida, with documented PFAS, solvent, and fuel contamination concerns.

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 Industrial Reserve Ordnance Plant (Fridley)

A Navy-owned weapons plant in Fridley, Minnesota where solvent dumping led to a Superfund groundwater cleanup.

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 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.

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.

Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant

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

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.

Williams Air Force Base (Former)

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

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.

Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point

MCAS Cherry Point in Havelock, North Carolina, a Superfund site since 1994, has documented PFAS, TCE, and PCB contamination from decades of air station operations.

Marine Corps Air Station Yuma

MCAS Yuma in Arizona was added to the Superfund list in 1990 after solvents such as TCE and PCE were found in groundwater beneath the air station.

Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany

MCLB Albany in Georgia was added to the Superfund National Priorities List in 1989 after landfill operations, industrial spills, and leaking PCB transformers contaminated soil and groundwater.

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.

Fort Leonard Wood

Fort Leonard Wood, a major Army training post in Missouri, has documented PFAS and chlorinated solvent contamination tied to firefighting foam use and past dry cleaning operations, along with PCB releases.

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.

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.

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.

Loring Air Force Base

Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine is an EPA Superfund site where solvents, PCBs and fuels contaminated soil and groundwater during decades of bomber operations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

McClellan Air Force Base

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

Camp Lejeune

One of the largest Marine Corps bases in the country, and the site of one of the most serious drinking-water contaminations in U.S. history.

Fort Hood

A major Army training hub in Killeen, Texas, with concerns about PFAS, AFFF, PCBs, and asbestos exposure on base.

Fort Bragg

One of the world's largest Army installations, with documented concerns about PFAS and other contaminants affecting soldiers and families.

Anniston Army Depot

An Alabama maintenance depot and EPA Superfund site with PCBs, solvents, and heavy metals documented in soil and groundwater.