Pollution & Cleanup
What you're looking at below is a statewide screening list, not an address check. A Superfund site somewhere in Maryland doesn't mean a particular home is affected, and the absence of a nearby one isn't a guarantee about your soil or water. Maryland's contamination history reflects its mix of heavy industry along its urban corridor, a long military and federal presence, and older manufacturing, which shapes the kinds of sites you'll see here. The federal program drives the list; the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) is the state's cleanup partner. Treat it as context worth reviewing when evaluating an address, and let the public records, not a headline, frame what you take from it.
The federal Superfund program has a state-side partner in the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE), which works alongside the U.S. EPA on contaminated-site cleanup and runs its own voluntary cleanup and land restoration programs for sites that don't reach the national list. On PFAS at contaminated sites, Maryland tends to track the federal program rather than impose separate standards. The point worth keeping: 'Superfund' isn't a faceless federal word in Maryland; MDE is a named state 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 |
|---|---|
| Aberdeen Proving Ground (Edgewood Area) | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Aberdeen Proving Ground (Michaelsville Landfill) | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Andrews Air Force Base | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (Usda) | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Brandywine Drmo | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Bush Valley Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Curtis Bay Coast Guard Yard | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Fort Detrick Area B Ground Water | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Fort George G. Meade | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Indian Head Naval Surface Warfare Center | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Limestone Road | Private · NPL: Final |
| Patuxent River Naval Air Station | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Sand, Gravel And Stone | Private · NPL: Final |
| Spectron, INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
Check Superfund sites near a specific Maryland 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 a clean bill of health. It means no Maryland Superfund site has been confirmed for PFAS in the records we draw on, not that none exists. MDE and EPA maintain a far broader SEMS inventory of contaminated and remediated sites, and PFAS confirmation often lags the testing. Read a quiet list as 'nothing flagged yet on this narrow measure,' not as a guarantee about the state.
A site appearing on this page means EPA has confirmed PFAS contamination at a National Priorities List Superfund site somewhere in Maryland. 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 Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) acts as the state-side partner, co-managing cleanups and tracking contaminated sites across Maryland. MDE also runs its own voluntary cleanup and land restoration programs for sites outside the federal list. Oversight in Maryland is shared, with a named state office you can actually contact.
A Superfund site is a location the federal government has identified as contaminated enough to need long-term cleanup under the law commonly called CERCLA, with the most serious on the National Priorities List. In Maryland, the U.S. EPA and the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) work together on those cleanups. A listed site signals known contamination and an active process, not a fixed danger to every nearby home.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 14 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) sites in Maryland, including Aberdeen Proving Ground (Edgewood Area), Aberdeen Proving Ground (Michaelsville Landfill), Andrews 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 Maryland 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.