Pollution & Cleanup
This is a statewide screening list, not an address check, and keeping those apart is the whole point: a Superfund site somewhere in Missouri does not mean a specific home is affected by it. Missouri carries a notable legacy of mining and heavy industry in parts of the state, alongside large agricultural and metropolitan areas, and that mix shapes where cleanup activity tends to cluster statewide. The EPA runs the federal Superfund program, with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MoDNR) as the state-side partner on cleanup. What appears below reflects what the public records show across the state, worth reviewing when you are evaluating an address.
On the cleanup side, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MoDNR) is the state-side partner to the federal EPA's Superfund program, and it runs a state site-remediation program for contaminated locations that never reach the federal list. On PFAS at contaminated sites, Missouri largely works within the federal framework the agency administers rather than a separate state limit set ahead of the 2024 rule. The plain takeaway is that Superfund names a federal program with a named Missouri office working alongside it, not a hazard nobody 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 |
|---|---|
| Bee Cee Manufacturing Co. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Lake City Army Ammunition Plant (Northwest Lagoon) | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Quality Plating | Private · NPL: Final |
| Riverfront | Private · NPL: Final |
Check Superfund sites near a specific Missouri 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 one home, four things decide whether a listed site matters to a specific address. Distance comes first. The contamination type and the pathway it could travel, soil, groundwater, or air, comes second. The cleanup stage is third, since many sites are well into remediation MoDNR helps oversee with the EPA. And the home's water source is fourth, because how far a site reaches depends heavily on where the tap actually draws from. The NPL-and-CERCLA naming tangle is its own minor bureaucratic dialect, but those four questions are what do the work.
Where the list above comes back empty, read it carefully rather than as a guarantee. An empty PFAS-confirmed Superfund list is not a full all-clear; it means nothing in MoDNR's slice of the EPA's broader SEMS inventory has been confirmed for PFAS specifically, which is narrower than nothing being present. When a particular address is the real question, an address-level look is the level-headed 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 Missouri. 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 Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MoDNR) 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 MoDNR involved on the state side. The list above reflects the statewide public record, not a check of any single property.
MoDNR is the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, the state agency that handles contaminated-site cleanup, drinking water, and environmental oversight in Missouri. It is the office working alongside the EPA on Superfund sites here.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 4 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) sites in Missouri, including Bee Cee Manufacturing Co., Lake City Army Ammunition Plant (Northwest Lagoon), Quality Plating. 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 Missouri 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.