Pollution & Cleanup
Read this first: what follows is a statewide screening list, not a check on any specific home. A documented site somewhere in Iowa tells you nothing definitive about a particular address, which may lie many miles away. Iowa's contamination history is shaped less by heavy industry than by its agricultural backbone and scattered manufacturing and rail-corridor activity. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources partners with EPA's federal Superfund program as the state-side authority on these sites. Use the records below as context worth reviewing when evaluating an address, never as a safety verdict. They reflect what the public files document, and nothing beyond that.
On the cleanup side, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (Iowa DNR) is the state-side partner to EPA's federal Superfund program, co-managing listed sites and typically running its own state-level contaminated-site and remediation work alongside it. Where PFAS appears at a contaminated site, Iowa tends to follow the federal framework rather than a separate state standard, consistent with how it approaches PFAS in drinking water. The steadying point is simple: behind the word Superfund there is a named state office, the Iowa DNR, not just a distant federal one.
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 |
|---|---|
| Iowa Army Ammunition Plant | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Lawrence Todtz Farm | Private · NPL: Final |
Check Superfund sites near a specific Iowa address →
VetMyAddress maps nearby EPA Superfund/NPL sites and grades the address A–F alongside its water, PFAS, flood, and air data.
If no PFAS-confirmed Superfund sites appear for Iowa in these records, that is reassuring, but not a full all-clear. PFAS confirmation reflects only what has been tested and reported so far, and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources' broader contaminated-site inventory, alongside EPA's SEMS database, reaches well past this single slice. Read an empty list as encouraging news with a fair asterisk, not as a settled question.
A site appearing on this page means EPA has confirmed PFAS contamination at a National Priorities List Superfund site somewhere in Iowa. 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.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (Iowa DNR) is the state-side partner to EPA's federal Superfund program. The two co-manage contaminated-site cleanup in Iowa, with the state agency typically leading state-level remediation alongside the federal listings.
Iowa has federally tracked contaminated sites, shaped largely by its agricultural backbone and scattered manufacturing and rail-corridor activity. The table above renders the documented sites from public records, with the Iowa DNR co-managing cleanup alongside EPA.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (Iowa DNR) is the state's environmental agency. On the cleanup side it works with EPA's federal Superfund program and oversees state-level site remediation across Iowa.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 2 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) sites in Iowa, including Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, Lawrence Todtz Farm. 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 Iowa 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.