Pollution & Cleanup
What follows is a statewide screening list, not an address check, and that distinction is the reason to read it calmly: a Superfund site somewhere in Mississippi does not mean a particular home is affected. Mississippi's industrial history is relatively lighter than the old manufacturing belts, weighted toward agriculture, with pockets of heavier industry along its rivers and coast, and that pattern shapes where cleanup activity tends to show up statewide. The EPA runs the federal Superfund program, with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) as the state-side partner on cleanup. The list below reflects what the public records show across the state, which is worth reviewing when you are evaluating an address.
On cleanup, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) is the state-side partner to the federal EPA's Superfund program, and it runs a state site-remediation program for contaminated locations that stay off the federal list. On PFAS at contaminated sites, Mississippi largely works within the federal framework the agency administers rather than a separate state limit set ahead of the 2024 rule. The reassuring takeaway is that the word Superfund describes a federal program with a named Mississippi office working beside it, not a problem left unattended.
No PFAS-confirmed NPL Superfund sites listed in Mississippi
Our curated dataset of PFAS-confirmed National Priorities List sites currently shows none in Mississippi. That's reassuring on the PFAS-Superfund front, but not a full all-clear: EPA's broader Superfund/SEMS inventory includes many non-PFAS and earlier-stage sites that aren't in this list. To see every EPA Superfund site near a particular Mississippi property — plus its water, PFAS, flood, and air profile — check the specific address.
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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 decides the matter for one home, four things govern whether a listed site is relevant to a specific address. Distance is first. The contamination type and the pathway it might travel, through soil, groundwater, or air, is second. The cleanup stage is third, since many listed sites are well into remediation that MDEQ helps oversee alongside the EPA. And the home's water source is fourth, because how far a site reaches depends heavily on where the tap draws from. Superfund's CERCLA-and-SEMS vocabulary is a small language of its own, but those four questions carry the weight.
Where the list above is empty, read it carefully rather than hopefully. An empty PFAS-confirmed Superfund list is not a full all-clear; it means nothing in MDEQ's portion of the EPA's broader SEMS inventory has been confirmed for PFAS specifically, which is a narrower thing than nothing being here. When a specific address is the real question on your mind, an address-level look is the sensible 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 Mississippi. 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 Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) 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 together.
It refers to contaminated locations across the state serious enough to draw federal cleanup attention under the EPA's National Priorities List, with MDEQ involved on the state side. The list above reflects the statewide public record, not a check of any single property.
MDEQ is the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, the state agency that handles contaminated-site cleanup, environmental permitting, and pollution oversight in Mississippi. It is the office working alongside the EPA on Superfund sites here.
Our curated dataset of PFAS-confirmed NPL Superfund sites currently lists none in Mississippi. That is not a clean bill of health: EPA's broader Superfund/SEMS inventory includes many non-PFAS and assessment-stage sites. A specific-address report checks the full EPA SEMS database 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 Mississippi 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.