Pollution & Cleanup
First, the important caveat: this is a statewide screening list, not an address check. A Superfund site somewhere in Alabama does not mean a particular home is affected — distance, geology, and a home's water source all matter. Alabama's industrial story is shaped by a mix of heavy manufacturing in its older corridors and a notable military presence, the kind of history that leaves cleanup work behind. The state agency that partners with the federal EPA on that work is the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. Reading this list is worth doing when you're evaluating an address; it shows what the public records hold, not a verdict on any single property.
When a contaminated site in Alabama lands on the federal Superfund list, the state's partner in the cleanup is the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM). Alongside the federal EPA, ADEM helps oversee remediation and typically runs a state-level site cleanup and voluntary-cleanup track for properties that don't rise to the federal program. On PFAS at contaminated sites, Alabama tends to work within the federal framework rather than imposing stricter state-specific thresholds. The point worth holding onto: the word "Superfund" sounds enormous, but there's a named state office whose job is to watch these sites.
From EPA's National Priorities List, filtered to sites with confirmed PFAS contamination. EPA's broader Superfund/SEMS inventory is larger and includes non-PFAS and assessment-stage sites.
| Site | Type / status |
|---|---|
| Anniston Army Depot (Southeast Industrial Area) | Federal · NPL: Final |
| US Nasa Marshall Space Flight Center | Federal · NPL: A |
| Usarmy/Nasa Redstone Arsenal | Federal · NPL: Final |
Check Superfund sites near a specific Alabama address →
VetMyAddress maps nearby EPA Superfund/NPL sites and grades the address A–F alongside its water, PFAS, flood, and air data.
A statewide list is not a verdict on any one home, and it helps to read it that way. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management works alongside the federal EPA on remediation, and four things shape whether a listed site matters for a specific address. Superfund's paperwork has its own dialect — SEMS, NPL, CERCLA — but the questions underneath are commonsense.
A site appearing on this page means EPA has confirmed PFAS contamination at a National Priorities List Superfund site somewhere in Alabama. It is a statewide screening list. It does not tell you the distance from any specific home, the exposure pathway, or whether the local drinking-water system is affected.
For a specific property, the things that actually matter are:
That address-level synthesis — nearest-site distance plus the home's full environmental profile in one A–F grade — is what the VetMyAddress report is for.
Federal Superfund sites in Alabama are managed by the EPA, with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) acting as the state-side partner. ADEM helps oversee remediation and typically runs a separate state cleanup track for sites that fall below the federal threshold.
A Superfund site is a location the federal EPA has identified as contaminated enough to need long-term cleanup, usually because hazardous substances were released into soil, groundwater, or surface water. Sites on the National Priorities List are the ones prioritized for that federal cleanup work, with state agencies like ADEM partnering alongside.
ADEM is the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, the state agency that partners with the federal EPA on contaminated-site cleanup and oversees Alabama's broader environmental and remediation programs.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 3 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) sites in Alabama, including Anniston Army Depot (Southeast Industrial Area), US Nasa Marshall Space Flight Center, Usarmy/Nasa Redstone Arsenal. EPA's full Superfund inventory (including non-PFAS and assessment-stage sites) is larger — a specific-address report checks all SEMS sites near the property.
Proximity is a starting point, not a verdict. Real-world impact depends on distance, the type of contamination, the exposure pathway (groundwater, soil, vapor), the home's water source, and the cleanup stage. A site two miles away marked 'construction complete' is very different from an active site next door.
Use VetMyAddress to see EPA Superfund/NPL sites near any Alabama address, bundled with the home's drinking water, PFAS, flood zone, and air-quality data in a single plain-English A–F grade. EPA's own ECHO database (echo.epa.gov) is the free, official source if you prefer to dig through the raw records.
It means PFAS ('forever chemicals') have been documented in the contamination at that National Priorities List site. PFAS is persistent and can migrate through groundwater, so a confirmed PFAS site is worth pairing with the home's drinking-water and PFAS data to understand the exposure pathway.