Pollution & Cleanup
This is a statewide screening list, not an address check, and the gap between those two things is exactly why it pays to read slowly. A Superfund site somewhere in Minnesota does not mean a specific home is affected by it. Minnesota's mix of manufacturing, mining legacy in parts of the state, and agricultural land shapes where cleanup activity tends to appear at a statewide level. The EPA runs the federal Superfund program, with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) as the state-side partner managing cleanup. What appears below is what the public records show across the state, which is worth reviewing when you are evaluating an address.
On cleanup, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is the state-side partner to the federal EPA's Superfund program, and it runs a state site-remediation program for contaminated locations that do not reach the federal list. Minnesota, which engaged early on PFAS largely through health-based guidance, tends to factor those compounds into how it evaluates contaminated sites rather than leaving the question entirely to the federal program. What is worth holding onto is that Superfund names a federal effort with the MPCA standing alongside it here, not a problem no one is tracking.
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 |
|---|---|
| Baytown Township Ground Water Plume | Private · NPL: Final |
| East Bethel Demolition Landfill | Private · NPL: Deleted |
| Fmc Corp. (Fridley Plant) | Private · NPL: Final |
| Kummer Sanitary Landfill | Private · NPL: Deleted |
| Lagrand Sanitary Landfill | Private · NPL: Deleted |
| Naval Industrial Reserve Ordnance Plant | Federal · NPL: Final |
| New Brighton/Arden Hills/Tcaap (Usarmy) | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Oakdale Dump | Private · NPL: Final |
| Pine Bend Sanitary Landfill | Private · NPL: Deleted |
| South Andover Site | Private · NPL: Final |
| Waite Park Wells | Private · NPL: Final |
| Washington County Landfill | Private · NPL: Deleted |
| Waste Disposal Engineering | Private · NPL: Deleted |
| Windom Dump | Private · NPL: Deleted |
Check Superfund sites near a specific Minnesota address →
VetMyAddress maps nearby EPA Superfund/NPL sites and grades the address A–F alongside its water, PFAS, flood, and air data.
Since a statewide list cannot settle the question for any single home, four things determine whether a listed site is relevant to a specific address. Distance, first. The type of contamination and the pathway it might travel through soil, groundwater, or air, second. The cleanup stage, third, since many sites are well into remediation the MPCA helps oversee with the EPA. And the home's water source, fourth, which shapes how far a site's effects could actually carry. The SEMS-and-NPL acronym thicket is its own bit of bureaucratic poetry, but those four questions are what matter.
Where the list above is empty, take it gently. An empty PFAS-confirmed Superfund list is not a full all-clear; it only means nothing in the MPCA's slice of the EPA's broader SEMS inventory has been confirmed for PFAS specifically, which says less than nothing is here ever would. When a particular address is the real question, an address-level look is the steady 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 Minnesota. 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 the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) 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 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 the MPCA involved on the state side. The list above reflects the statewide public record, not a check of any one property.
The MPCA is the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the state agency that handles contaminated-site cleanup, environmental permitting, and pollution oversight in Minnesota. It is the office working alongside the EPA on Superfund sites here.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 14 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) sites in Minnesota, including Baytown Township Ground Water Plume, East Bethel Demolition Landfill, Fmc Corp. (Fridley 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 Minnesota 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.