Pollution & Cleanup
The list below is a statewide screening of Superfund sites in Oklahoma, not a check on any single address. A site existing somewhere in the state does not mean a particular home is affected. Oklahoma's industrial history leans toward energy, mining, and agriculture, and that legacy shapes where cleanup attention has landed across the map rather than in any one neighborhood. The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality works as the state-side partner to the EPA's federal program on these sites. Treat what follows as the public record worth reviewing when evaluating an address, and a prompt to look closer at a specific location rather than a conclusion about it.
On the cleanup side, the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is the state-side partner to the federal EPA's Superfund program. Alongside EPA, it helps oversee contaminated-site work and runs a state-level site-cleanup and remediation program for properties that fall outside the federal list. On PFAS at contaminated sites, Oklahoma largely follows the federal approach rather than setting its own enforceable cleanup numbers. The reassuring part of a word as heavy as "Superfund" is that it comes attached to a named office: cleanup is something an agency is accountable for, not a problem left to drift.
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 |
|---|---|
| Tinker Air Force Base (Soldier Creek/Building 3001) | Federal · NPL: Final |
Check Superfund sites near a specific Oklahoma address →
VetMyAddress maps nearby EPA Superfund/NPL sites and grades the address A–F alongside its water, PFAS, flood, and air data.
A statewide Superfund list is a map of where federal attention has gone, not a ruling on your future front door. Four things decide whether a listed site matters for a given home, and the Oklahoma DEQ's remediation role touches each: distance from the property, the type of contamination and how it could travel, how far along the cleanup has progressed, and where the home actually draws its water. Read together, those answer far more than a raw count ever could. Superfund's paperwork keeps its own dialect (NPL, SEMS, CERCLA), and translating it is half the work.
If the list for Oklahoma comes back empty of PFAS-confirmed sites, that is genuinely good news, but it is not a full all-clear. The DEQ and EPA track a far broader inventory of sites than the PFAS-confirmed subset, and an address can sit near contamination of other kinds. An empty PFAS list simply means none of the cataloged sites here are flagged for those specific compounds yet, which is worth knowing rather than mistaking for a clean bill of health.
A site appearing on this page means EPA has confirmed PFAS contamination at a National Priorities List Superfund site somewhere in Oklahoma. 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 sites are part of a federal EPA program, with the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) acting as the state-side partner. The DEQ helps coordinate cleanup oversight and also runs a state-level remediation program for sites that fall outside the federal list.
Oklahoma's listed sites reflect its energy, mining, and agricultural history, and the count rendered on this page is drawn live from federal records. A site somewhere in the state is not a verdict on any one home, and distance, contamination type, and water source all matter.
The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is the state environmental agency overseeing air, water, and waste. On contaminated sites, it works alongside the federal EPA Superfund program and manages a state-level cleanup and remediation effort.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 1 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) site in Oklahoma, including Tinker Air Force Base (Soldier Creek/Building 3001). 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 Oklahoma 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.