Pollution & Cleanup
Start with the caveat that matters most: this is a statewide screening list, not a check on any specific address. A Superfund site somewhere in Alaska does not mean a given home is affected — distance, terrain, and where a home draws its water all change the picture. Alaska's contamination history leans heavily on its military presence and resource-extraction legacy, including mining, rather than dense industrial corridors. The state agency that partners with the federal EPA on cleanup is the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. Looking over this list is worth doing when you're evaluating an address — it reflects what the public records show, not a judgment on any one home.
If a contaminated site in Alaska reaches the federal Superfund list, the state's partner in the work is the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). Working alongside the federal EPA, DEC helps oversee cleanup and runs its own contaminated-sites program for properties that fall outside the federal track. On PFAS at contaminated sites, Alaska has tended to operate within the federal framework rather than setting stricter state thresholds. It's worth saying plainly: behind the heavy word "Superfund" there is a named state office whose job is to keep watch on 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 |
|---|---|
| Adak Naval Air Station | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Eielson Air Force Base | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Elmendorf Air Force Base | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Fort Richardson (Usarmy) | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Fort Wainwright | Federal · NPL: Final |
Check Superfund sites near a specific Alaska 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 isn't a verdict on any single home, and reading it calmly helps. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation co-manages remediation with the federal EPA, and four practical questions decide whether a listed site bears on a specific address. The Superfund vocabulary — NPL, SEMS, CERCLA — is its own small dialect, but the questions under it are ordinary ones.
A site appearing on this page means EPA has confirmed PFAS contamination at a National Priorities List Superfund site somewhere in Alaska. 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 Alaska are overseen by the EPA, with the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) serving as the state-side partner. DEC helps manage remediation and runs its own contaminated-sites program for cleanups outside the federal program.
Alaska has sites the federal EPA has placed on the National Priorities List for cleanup, shaped largely by the state's military and resource-extraction history. The table on this page shows what the public records currently hold; the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation partners with EPA on the cleanup work.
DEC is the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, the state agency that partners with the federal EPA on contaminated-site cleanup and oversees Alaska's broader environmental and remediation programs.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 5 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) sites in Alaska, including Adak Naval Air Station, Eielson Air Force Base, Elmendorf Air Force Base. 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 Alaska 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.