Pollution & Cleanup
What follows is a statewide screening list, not a check on any one address. A Superfund site somewhere in Louisiana doesn't mean a specific home is affected, and no nearby site isn't a guarantee about your ground or your water. Louisiana's contamination history runs heavily through petrochemicals, refining, and the dense industrial corridor along the Mississippi River, which shapes the kinds of sites that appear here. The federal program builds the list; the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) is the state's cleanup partner. Take it as context worth reviewing when evaluating an address, and let the public records, not the dread the word can carry, frame what you make of it.
The federal Superfund program has a clear state-side partner in Louisiana: the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ), which works with the U.S. EPA on contaminated-site cleanup and also runs its own state remediation tracks for inactive and abandoned sites that fall short of the federal list. On PFAS at contaminated sites, Louisiana tends to follow the federal program rather than set separate standards. The reassuring core of it: 'Superfund' is not a faceless federal word in Louisiana; LDEQ is a named office that shares the cleanup job.
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 |
|---|---|
| Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant | Federal · NPL: Final |
Check Superfund sites near a specific Louisiana 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 is not an all-clear. It means no Louisiana Superfund site has been confirmed for PFAS in the records we rely on, not that none exists anywhere in the state. LDEQ and EPA maintain a far larger SEMS inventory of contaminated and remediated sites, and PFAS confirmation tends to lag the underlying testing. Read a quiet list as 'nothing flagged on this one narrow measure,' not as a guarantee.
A site appearing on this page means EPA has confirmed PFAS contamination at a National Priorities List Superfund site somewhere in Louisiana. 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 Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) is the state-side partner, co-managing cleanups and tracking contaminated sites across Louisiana. LDEQ also runs its own remediation programs for inactive and abandoned sites outside the federal list. So oversight in Louisiana is shared between EPA and a named state agency.
Louisiana's heavy concentration of petrochemical plants, refineries, and industry along the Mississippi River corridor shapes its contamination history, and the live table on this page reflects what the current records hold. Rather than dwell on a total, it's more useful to look at each site's location, contamination type, and cleanup stage. The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) partners with EPA on that work.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 1 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) site in Louisiana, including Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant. 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 Louisiana 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.