Superfund Sites
Bradley Air National Guard Base
Bradley Air National Guard Base in Connecticut has been associated with PFAS groundwater contamination linked to firefighting foam.
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.
Francis S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base
A New York Air National Guard base at Gabreski Airport where AFFF firefighting foam has been associated with PFAS contamination of nearby wells.
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 Amphibious Base Little Creek
A look at documented contamination and Superfund cleanup at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek in Virginia Beach.
Stewart Air National Guard Base
A New York Air National Guard base near Newburgh where firefighting foam has been associated with PFAS in local drinking water.
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.
Air Force Plant PJKS
A former Air Force Titan missile assembly and test plant in Jefferson County, Colorado, now an EPA Superfund cleanup site.
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.
Former Naval Air Station South Weymouth
A look at contamination concerns and ongoing CERCLA cleanup at the former Naval Air Station South Weymouth in Massachusetts.
Francis E. Warren Air Force Base
A look at documented contamination concerns at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, a Wyoming Superfund site.
Hanscom Air Force Base
Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts is a Superfund site with documented solvent, fuel, and PFAS concerns.
Hastings Naval Ammunition Depot
A former WWII Navy munitions plant near Hastings, Nebraska, now part of a Superfund groundwater cleanup 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.
Joint Base Andrews (Naval Air Facility Washington)
Joint Base Andrews in Maryland is an NPL Superfund site where PFAS from firefighting foam has affected groundwater.
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.
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.
Milan Army Ammunition Plant
Milan Army Ammunition Plant in Tennessee is an EPA Superfund site where soil and groundwater were contaminated with explosives such as TNT and RDX.
Military Ocean Terminal Concord
A former Navy weapons station now an Army ocean terminal in California, listed as a Superfund site in 1994.
Mountain Home Air Force Base
An overview of documented soil and groundwater contamination at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho and its Superfund status.
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 Cecil Field
A former Navy master jet base near Jacksonville, Florida, with documented PFAS, solvent, and fuel contamination concerns.
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 Base Kitsap-Bangor
A Navy submarine base on Hood Canal in Washington with two Superfund listings and ongoing PFAS investigations.
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 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.
Nebraska Ordnance Plant (Former)
A former Army munitions plant near Mead, Nebraska where wartime explosives and solvent use left RDX and TCE in soil and groundwater.
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.
Eielson Air Force Base
Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska is a Superfund site where fuel, solvents, and PFAS from firefighting foam contaminated groundwater that migrated into the nearby Moose Creek community.
Ellsworth Air Force Base
Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota is an EPA Superfund site where solvents such as TCE and PFAS from firefighting foam have been documented in groundwater and nearby private wells.
Fairchild Air Force Base
Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane, Washington was listed as a Superfund site in 1989, and AFFF-related PFAS later contaminated drinking water in neighboring Airway Heights.
Fort George G. Meade
Fort George G. Meade, the Maryland Army post that hosts NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, was added to the EPA Superfund list in 1998 after TCE, solvents, and later PFAS were found in groundwater.
Fort Wainwright
Fort Wainwright, the Army's Arctic post near Fairbanks, Alaska, is a 1990 Superfund site where fuel spills, solvent plumes, and AFFF-related PFAS have been documented in groundwater.
Hill Air Force Base
Hill Air Force Base in Utah, an EPA Superfund site since 1987, has documented TCE groundwater plumes extending under nearby communities and ongoing PFAS investigations tied to firefighting foam.
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska combines two Superfund sites where fuels, solvents, and PFAS firefighting foam have been documented in soil and groundwater.
Joint Base Langley-Eustis
Both components of Virginia's Joint Base Langley-Eustis are 1994 Superfund sites, with PFAS from firefighting foam found in groundwater at levels among the highest recorded on any U.S. military installation.
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.
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 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 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.
Naval Air Station Whiting Field
A Florida Navy training base where AFFF use and industrial operations left PFAS and solvent contamination, designated a Superfund site in 1994.
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.
Tooele Army Depot
Decades of industrial waste disposal at Tooele Army Depot in Utah created large TCE groundwater plumes, leading to a 1990 Superfund listing and one of the nation's largest groundwater treatment efforts.
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.
Joint Base Cape Cod (Otis Air National Guard Base/Camp Edwards)
Joint Base Cape Cod, a Superfund site since 1989, sits atop Cape Cod's sole-source aquifer, where fuel spills, solvents and firefighting foam created groundwater plumes containing TCE, benzene and PFAS.
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.
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.
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.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, an EPA Superfund site since 1989, has documented TCE, solvent, and fuel contamination, plus PFAS linked to decades of AFFF firefighting foam use.
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.
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.
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 Detrick
Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland is home to an EPA Superfund site where TCE and PCE from buried laboratory wastes contaminated groundwater and nearby residential wells.
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.
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.
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 Lewis-McChord
Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington has documented TCE, solvent, petroleum, and PFAS contamination, and portions of the base are EPA Superfund sites.
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.
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.
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.
Former Naval Air Station Brunswick
Concerns about PFAS, firefighting foam, and legacy solvents at the former Naval Air Station Brunswick in Maine.
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.
Naval Air Station Whidbey Island
NAS Whidbey Island in Washington has documented PFAS, PFOS, PFOA, AFFF, and solvent contamination, and both Ault Field and the Seaplane Base have been EPA Superfund sites.
Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster
PFAS from firefighting foam and solvent contamination at the former Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster affected drinking water wells in surrounding Bucks County communities.
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.
Pease Air Force Base
Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire, a former Strategic Air Command installation, is an EPA Superfund site where PFAS from firefighting foam, solvents, and jet fuel contaminated groundwater and a drinking water well.
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.
Tobyhanna Army Depot
Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania, a Superfund site listed in 1990, has documented solvent and PFAS contamination in groundwater, soils, and sediments.
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.
Naval Air Station Jacksonville
A major Navy installation in Florida designated a Superfund site after chlorinated solvents reached soil and groundwater.
Fort Ord
A former Army training center on Monterey Bay, closed in 1994 and designated a Superfund site for soil and groundwater contamination.
Hidden Costs of Service: Cancerous Water at Superfund Sites
One veteran's story of contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune, and what Superfund designation means for those who served.
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.