Pollution & Cleanup
What follows is a statewide screening of Superfund sites in Oregon, not an address check. A site located somewhere in the state tells you nothing definitive about a specific home. Oregon's pattern reflects a mix of timber and wood-products legacy, port and shipyard activity, and a relatively contained heavy-industry footprint, which shapes where cleanup attention sits across the state rather than in one block. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality serves as the state-side partner to the EPA's federal program for these sites. Read this as the public record worth reviewing when evaluating an address, and as a reason to look closer at one location rather than a conclusion about it.
For contaminated-site cleanup, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is the state's partner to the federal EPA Superfund program and runs its own Environmental Cleanup Program for sites that sit outside the national list. Where the federal program tracks the headline cases, the DEQ carries a much wider state inventory. On PFAS at these sites, Oregon has leaned toward guidance and advisory levels rather than fixed enforceable cleanup numbers of its own. The point worth holding onto: the dread packed into the word "Superfund" eases a little once you know a named state office shares responsibility for the work.
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 |
|---|---|
| Umatilla Army Depot (Lagoons) | Federal · NPL: Final |
Check Superfund sites near a specific Oregon address →
VetMyAddress maps nearby EPA Superfund/NPL sites and grades the address A–F alongside its water, PFAS, flood, and air data.
Think of a statewide list as a starting map, not a verdict on any single property. Whether a listed site matters for a particular home comes down to four things the Oregon DEQ weighs in its own cleanup work: how close the site sits, what kind of contamination is present and how it might travel, what stage the cleanup has reached, and where the home gets its water. Those together say far more than a headline number. Oregon's Environmental Cleanup Program and the federal Superfund framework speak in overlapping acronyms (NPL, SEMS, CERCLA), and decoding the alphabet is part of the job.
If Oregon's PFAS-confirmed Superfund list reads as empty, that is good news without being a clean slate. The DEQ's broader cleanup inventory is much larger than the PFAS-confirmed subset tracked here, and a home can still sit near other forms of contamination. An empty PFAS list means none of the cataloged sites are currently flagged for those particular compounds, which is genuinely worth knowing, not a guarantee about a given address.
A site appearing on this page means EPA has confirmed PFAS contamination at a National Priorities List Superfund site somewhere in Oregon. 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, and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is the state-side partner that helps coordinate cleanup. The DEQ also runs its own Environmental Cleanup Program for the many contaminated sites that sit outside the federal national list.
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality works alongside the federal EPA on Superfund sites and maintains a broader state cleanup inventory of its own. Its role is to help oversee remediation, which is why a listed site always has a named office attached to it.
Oregon's listed sites reflect its timber, port, and manufacturing history, and the count shown on this page is drawn live from federal records. A site somewhere in the state is not a conclusion about any single home; distance, contamination type, and water source all matter.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 1 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) site in Oregon, including Umatilla Army Depot (Lagoons). 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 Oregon 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.