Pollution & Cleanup
What follows is a statewide screening list, not an address check, and the difference is everything: a Superfund site somewhere in Michigan does not mean a given home is touched by it. Michigan's industrial story, heavy on manufacturing and the auto economy, shapes where the state's cleanup work tends to concentrate, and that is a statewide pattern, not a judgment on any neighborhood. The EPA runs the federal Superfund program, with the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) as Michigan's state-side partner on cleanup. The list below reflects what the public records show at the state level, which is genuinely worth reviewing when you are evaluating an address.
For cleanup, Michigan's Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is the state-side counterpart to the federal EPA's Superfund program, and it runs a state site-remediation program for contaminated locations that stay off the federal list. Because Michigan set its own enforceable PFAS drinking-water standards ahead of the 2024 federal rule, it tends to treat PFAS at contaminated sites as a state concern rather than waiting for federal direction. The plain takeaway is that the dread the word Superfund carries has a named office behind it here, working alongside the EPA.
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 |
|---|---|
| Adam's Plating | Private · NPL: Final |
| Allied Paper, INC./Portage Creek/Kalamazoo River | Private · NPL: Final |
| American Anodco, INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Auto Ion Chemicals, INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Bendix Corp./Allied Automotive | Private · NPL: Final |
| Bofors Nobel, INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Butterworth #2 Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Cannelton Industries, INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Charlevoix Municipal Well | Private · NPL: Deleted |
| Chem Central | Private · NPL: Final |
| Clare Water Supply | Private · NPL: Final |
| Dsc Mclouth Steel Gibraltar Plant | Private · NPL: Final |
| Forest Waste Products | Private · NPL: Final |
| G&H Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Hi-Mill Manufacturing Co. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Ionia City Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| K&L Avenue Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Kentwood Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Kysor Industrial Corp. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Liquid Disposal, INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Mason County Landfill | Private · NPL: Deleted |
| Mclouth Steel Corp | Private · NPL: Final |
| Metamora Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Michner Plating - Mechanic Street | Private · NPL: Final |
| Muskegon Chemical Co. | Private · NPL: Final |
| North Bronson Industrial Area | Private · NPL: Final |
| Northernaire Plating | Private · NPL: Final |
| Ott/Story/Cordova Chemical Co. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Peerless Plating Co. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Pmc Groundwater | Private · NPL: Final |
| Rasmussen's Dump | Private · NPL: Final |
| Rockwell International Corp. (Allegan Plant) | Private · NPL: Final |
| Roto-Finish Co., INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Shiawassee River | Private · NPL: Final |
| South Macomb Disposal Authority (Landfills #9 And #9a) | Private · NPL: Final |
| Spartan Chemical Co. | Private · NPL: Final |
| State Disposal Landfill, INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Sturgis Municipal Wells | Private · NPL: Final |
| Velsicol Chemical Corp. (Michigan) | Private · NPL: Final |
| Wash King Laundry | Private · NPL: Final |
| Wurtsmith Air Force Base | Federal · NPL: Proposed |
Check Superfund sites near a specific Michigan address →
VetMyAddress maps nearby EPA Superfund/NPL sites and grades the address A–F alongside its water, PFAS, flood, and air data.
Because a statewide list never settles the question for one home, four things decide whether a listed site matters to a specific address. Distance comes first. Then the contamination type and the pathway it could travel, whether soil, groundwater, or air. Then the cleanup stage, since many sites are deep into remediation that EGLE helps manage alongside the EPA. And finally the home's own water source, which governs how far a site's reach actually extends. The CERCLA-and-SEMS naming pileup is its own small bureaucratic adventure, but those four questions do the real work.
If the list comes back empty above, hold it loosely. An empty PFAS-confirmed Superfund list is not a clean bill of health; it means nothing in EGLE's portion of the EPA's wider SEMS inventory has been confirmed for PFAS in particular, which is narrower than all clear. When a specific address is what is actually on your mind, an address-level look is the calm next step, 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 Michigan. 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 EPA program, but Michigan's Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is the state-side partner that co-manages cleanup and runs its own site-remediation program for sites off the federal list. The two tend to work many of the same sites together.
It refers to contaminated locations across the state serious enough for federal cleanup attention under the EPA's National Priorities List, with EGLE involved on the state side. The list above reflects the statewide public record, not a check of any single property.
EGLE is the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, the state agency renamed from the former DEQ in 2019. It handles contaminated-site cleanup and works alongside the EPA on Superfund sites in Michigan.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 41 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) sites in Michigan, including Adam's Plating, Allied Paper, INC./Portage Creek/Kalamazoo River, American Anodco, 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 Michigan 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.