Pollution & Cleanup
Start with the most important caveat: this is a statewide screening list, not an address check. A Superfund site somewhere in Connecticut tells you nothing definitive about a particular home. Connecticut's industrial history runs through a long manufacturing legacy — older mill and factory corridors — which helps explain why certain cleanup sites exist across the state, as a pattern rather than a comment on any one neighborhood. The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) acts as the state-side partner to the EPA's federal program. Read the list below to understand what the public records show statewide, and treat a focused address-level review as the measured next step worth reviewing for a specific property.
For contaminated-site cleanup, Connecticut's state-side partner to the EPA is the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP). Alongside the federal Superfund (NPL) program, DEEP co-manages remediation and typically runs a state-level site-remediation and cleanup program for properties below the federal threshold. On PFAS at contaminated sites, Connecticut has been comparatively forward-leaning through its action plan, though enforceable handling still tends to lean on the federal framework. The reassuring part: the word Superfund is daunting, but there's a named state office watching this.
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 |
|---|---|
| Barkhamsted-New Hartford Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Beacon Heights Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Durham Meadows | Private · NPL: Final |
| Gallup's Quarry | Private · NPL: Final |
| Kellogg-Deering Well Field | Private · NPL: Final |
| Laurel Park, INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Linemaster Switch Corp. | Private · NPL: Final |
| New London Submarine Base | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Precision Plating Corp. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Raymark Industries, INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Solvents Recovery Service Of New England | Private · NPL: Final |
| Yaworski Waste Lagoon | Private · NPL: Final |
Check Superfund sites near a specific Connecticut address →
VetMyAddress maps nearby EPA Superfund/NPL sites and grades the address A–F alongside its water, PFAS, flood, and air data.
Think of a statewide Superfund list as orientation, not a ruling on any single home — and remember that DEEP's site-remediation role is part of why these locations are documented in the first place. Four questions help you read it. How close is a site, really, since distance matters far more than a shared state line? What kind of contamination is it, and could it travel through soil, air, or water? How far along is the cleanup, given that many listed sites are deep into remediation? And where does a particular home actually draw its water? The federal cleanup vocabulary — CERCLA, NPL, SEMS — is its own bureaucratic dialect, so a little translation is fair. If Connecticut's PFAS-confirmed list reads empty, that's worth noting, but it isn't a full all-clear: it speaks only to confirmed PFAS, while DEEP's broader site inventory and the EPA's SEMS records may still track other issues.
A site appearing on this page means EPA has confirmed PFAS contamination at a National Priorities List Superfund site somewhere in Connecticut. 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.
Superfund (NPL) sites are federal and run by the EPA, with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) serving as the state-side partner. DEEP co-manages cleanup and runs its own site-remediation program for contaminated properties that fall below the federal list.
The list below reflects EPA National Priorities List sites recorded statewide for Connecticut. It's a statewide screening view rather than an address check — a site somewhere in the state doesn't mean a specific home is affected. DEEP and the EPA maintain the underlying records.
A Superfund site is a contaminated location the EPA addresses under the federal CERCLA program, with the most serious added to the National Priorities List (NPL). In Connecticut, the EPA and DEEP jointly track and manage that cleanup work.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 12 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) sites in Connecticut, including Barkhamsted-New Hartford Landfill, Beacon Heights Landfill, Durham Meadows. 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 Connecticut 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.