Pollution & Cleanup
What you're looking at below is a statewide screening list, not an address check. A site somewhere in Kansas doesn't mean a particular home is affected, and the absence of one nearby isn't a guarantee about your tap or your soil. Kansas's contamination history leans toward agriculture, oil and gas, and scattered manufacturing rather than a dense industrial corridor, which shapes the kinds of sites that turn up here. The federal Superfund program drives the list; the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) is the state's partner on cleanup. Treat this as context worth reviewing when evaluating an address, and let the public records, not a headline, set your expectations.
Superfund is a federal program, but it isn't run from Washington alone. In Kansas, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) works alongside the U.S. EPA as the state-side partner on contaminated-site cleanup, and it also runs its own state remediation and voluntary cleanup tracks for sites that don't rise to the federal list. On PFAS specifically, KDHE tends to follow the federal program's lead rather than imposing separate site standards. The takeaway: the word 'Superfund' has a named office behind it in Kansas, not just an acronym.
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 |
|---|---|
| Fort Riley | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Plating, INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
Check Superfund sites near a specific Kansas address →
VetMyAddress maps nearby EPA Superfund/NPL sites and grades the address A–F alongside its water, PFAS, flood, and air data.
An empty PFAS-confirmed list here is not a clean bill of health. It means no Superfund site in Kansas has been confirmed for PFAS in the data we draw on, not that nothing exists. KDHE and EPA maintain a much broader SEMS inventory of contaminated and remediated sites, and PFAS confirmation often lags behind the science. Read a quiet list as 'nothing flagged yet on this narrow measure,' not 'all clear.'
A site appearing on this page means EPA has confirmed PFAS contamination at a National Priorities List Superfund site somewhere in Kansas. 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 is a federal program led by the U.S. EPA, but the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) acts as the state-side partner, co-managing cleanup and tracking contaminated sites within Kansas. KDHE also runs its own state remediation and voluntary cleanup programs for sites that fall outside the federal list. So oversight in Kansas is shared, with a named state office you can actually reach.
A Superfund site is a location that the federal government has identified as contaminated enough to need long-term cleanup under the law commonly called CERCLA. The most serious sites land on the National Priorities List. In Kansas, the U.S. EPA and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) work together on those cleanups. A site on the list signals known contamination and a cleanup process, not a fixed danger to every nearby home.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 2 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) sites in Kansas, including Fort Riley, Plating, INC.. 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 Kansas 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.