Pollution & Cleanup
This is a statewide screening list, not an address check. A Superfund site somewhere in Massachusetts does not mean a particular home is affected, and that distinction is the whole reason to read carefully rather than react. Massachusetts carries the legacy of a long industrial and manufacturing history concentrated in its older mill corridors, which shapes where cleanup activity tends to cluster across the state. The federal EPA runs the Superfund program, with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) as the state-side partner managing cleanup and its own contaminated-site inventory. What you see below is what the public records show at the state level, which is a useful thing to review when you are evaluating an address.
On the cleanup side, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) is the state-side partner to the federal EPA's Superfund program, and it runs its own contaminated-site cleanup effort under the Massachusetts Contingency Plan for sites that never reach the federal list. Massachusetts, having set its own PFAS drinking-water limit ahead of the 2024 federal rule, tends to fold PFAS into how it evaluates contaminated sites rather than treating it as a federal-only concern. The point worth holding onto is that the word Superfund describes a federal program with a named state agency working alongside it here, not an unwatched problem.
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 |
|---|---|
| Baird & Mcguire | Private · NPL: Final |
| Bjat LLC | Private · NPL: Final |
| Blackburn & Union Privileges | Private · NPL: Final |
| Charles George Reclamation Trust Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Fort Devens | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Fort Devens-Sudbury Training Annex | Federal · NPL: Deleted |
| Groveland Wells | Private · NPL: Final |
| Hanscom Field/Hanscom Air Force Base | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Industri-Plex | Private · NPL: Final |
| Iron Horse Park | Private · NPL: Final |
| Microfab INC (Former) | Private · NPL: Final |
| Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Nuclear Metals, INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Nyanza Chemical Waste Dump | Private · NPL: Final |
| Olin Chemical | Private · NPL: Final |
| Otis Air National Guard Base/Camp Edwards | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Psc Resources | Private · NPL: Final |
| Re-Solve, INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Rose Disposal Pit | Private · NPL: Final |
| Silresim Chemical Corp. | Private · NPL: Final |
| South Weymouth Naval Air Station | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Sullivan's Ledge | Private · NPL: Final |
| Sutton Brook Disposal Area | Private · NPL: Final |
| W.R. Grace & Co., INC. (Acton Plant) | Private · NPL: Final |
| Walton & Lonsbury INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Wells G&H | Private · NPL: Final |
Check Superfund sites near a specific Massachusetts address →
VetMyAddress maps nearby EPA Superfund/NPL sites and grades the address A–F alongside its water, PFAS, flood, and air data.
A statewide list is not a verdict on any one home, so here is what actually shapes whether a listed site matters to a specific address. First, distance from the site. Second, the type of contamination and how it could travel, whether through soil, groundwater, or air. Third, the cleanup stage, since many listed sites are well into remediation managed in part by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) alongside the EPA. Fourth, the home's water source, because a site's reach depends heavily on where the tap actually draws from. Superfund's paperwork runs on its own dialect of acronyms, but those four questions cut through most of it.
If the list above comes back empty, read that gently. An empty PFAS-confirmed Superfund list is not a full all-clear; it means no site in MassDEP's slice of the EPA's broader SEMS inventory has been confirmed for PFAS specifically, which is a narrower statement than nothing is here. The calm, rational next step when a specific address is on your mind is an address-level look, not a statewide one.
A site appearing on this page means EPA has confirmed PFAS contamination at a National Priorities List Superfund site somewhere in Massachusetts. 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 run by the EPA, but the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) is the state-side partner that co-manages cleanup and runs its own contaminated-site program under the Massachusetts Contingency Plan. The two tend to work the same sites from different angles.
It refers to contaminated locations across the state serious enough to draw federal cleanup attention under the EPA's National Priorities List, with MassDEP involved on the state side. The list above reflects the statewide picture from public records, not a check of any single property.
MassDEP is the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, the state agency that handles contaminated-site cleanup, drinking water, and environmental permitting across Massachusetts. It is the office working alongside the EPA on Superfund sites here.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 26 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) sites in Massachusetts, including Baird & Mcguire, Bjat LLC, Blackburn & Union Privileges. 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 Massachusetts 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.