Pollution & Cleanup
Superfund is a heavy word, and New Jersey carries more of these sites than most states, so let's keep this measured. The list below is a statewide screening view, not an address check, and a site somewhere in the state does not mean a particular home is affected. New Jersey's long history as a dense heavy-manufacturing and chemical-industry corridor shapes much of what shows up here. Cleanup is a partnership: the federal EPA runs the national Superfund program, and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) is the deeply engaged state-side partner. Use this page to see what the public records show statewide, and treat a specific address as its own separate question worth reviewing.
New Jersey's cleanup work is co-managed by the federal EPA and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), the state-side partner on Superfund that also runs an extensive state site-remediation program. The NJDEP oversees listed cleanups and tracks a large inventory of contaminated sites beyond the federal list. Consistent with its forward posture on PFAS in drinking water, New Jersey tends to be among the more active states in addressing PFAS at contaminated sites alongside the federal program. Behind the heavy word Superfund sits a named, deeply involved state office working with 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 |
|---|---|
| A. O. Polymer | Private · NPL: Final |
| American Cyanamid Co | Private · NPL: Final |
| Bog Creek Farm | Private · NPL: Final |
| Bridgeport Rental & Oil Services | Private · NPL: Final |
| Caldwell Trucking Co. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Chemical Leaman Tank Lines, INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Ciba-Geigy Corp. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Combe Fill South Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Cornell Dubilier Electronics INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Cps/Madison Industries | Private · NPL: Final |
| Crown Vantage Landfill | Private · NPL: Deleted |
| Curtis Specialty Papers, INC | Private · NPL: Final |
| Dayco Corp./L.E Carpenter Co. | Private · NPL: Final |
| De Rewal Chemical Co. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Ewan Property | Private · NPL: Final |
| Fair Lawn Well Field | Private · NPL: Final |
| Federal Aviation Administration Technical Center (Usdot) | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Fort Dix (Landfill Site) | Federal · NPL: Deleted |
| Fried Industries | Private · NPL: Final |
| Garfield Ground Water Contamination | Private · NPL: Final |
| Global Sanitary Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Goose Farm | Private · NPL: Final |
| Helen Kramer Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Iceland Coin Laundry Area Gw Plume | Private · NPL: Final |
| Kin-Buc Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Lipari Landfill | Private · NPL: Deleted |
| Mansfield Trail Dump | Private · NPL: Final |
| Martin Aaron, INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Matteo & Sons INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Maywood Chemical Co. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Mcguire Air Force Base #1 | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Metaltec/Aerosystems | Private · NPL: Final |
| Monitor Devices, INC./Intercircuits, INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Naval Air Engineering Center | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Naval Weapons Station Earle (Site A) | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Orange Valley Regional Ground Water Contamination | Private · NPL: Final |
| Picatinny Arsenal (Usarmy) | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Pierson's Creek | Private · NPL: Final |
| Pioneer Metal Finishing INC | Private · NPL: Final |
| Pjp Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Price Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Puchack Well Field | Private · NPL: Final |
| Reich Farms | Private · NPL: Deleted |
| Riverside Industrial Park | Private · NPL: Final |
| Rockaway Township Wells | Private · NPL: Final |
| Rolling Knolls Lf | Private · NPL: Final |
| Syncon Resins | Private · NPL: Final |
| Williams Property | Private · NPL: Final |
Check Superfund sites near a specific New Jersey address →
VetMyAddress maps nearby EPA Superfund/NPL sites and grades the address A–F alongside its water, PFAS, flood, and air data.
If New Jersey somehow shows no PFAS-confirmed Superfund sites in this slice, that is worth noting but is not a full all-clear. The NJDEP and EPA maintain one of the country's larger SEMS inventories, far broader than the PFAS-confirmed subset, so a quiet result in this narrow category does not mean every site is cleared. Read it as a starting point, not a conclusion.
A site appearing on this page means EPA has confirmed PFAS contamination at a National Priorities List Superfund site somewhere in New Jersey. 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 cleanup in New Jersey is co-managed by the federal EPA, which runs the national program, and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), which serves as the deeply engaged state-side partner and runs its own extensive site-remediation work.
New Jersey's long history as a dense heavy-manufacturing and chemical-industry corridor is reflected in its contaminated-site record. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection partners with EPA to oversee these listed sites across the state. The current count appears in the table on this page.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, or NJDEP, is the state agency that protects New Jersey's water, land, and air and acts as the state-side partner to EPA on contaminated-site cleanup, including Superfund sites.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 48 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) sites in New Jersey, including A. O. Polymer, American Cyanamid Co, Bog Creek Farm. 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 New Jersey 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.