Pollution & Cleanup
The list below is a statewide screening of Superfund sites in Pennsylvania, not an address check. A site somewhere in the state says nothing conclusive about a specific home. Pennsylvania carries one of the country's deeper industrial legacies, from steel and coal to chemical and manufacturing corridors, and that history shapes where cleanup attention concentrates across the state rather than on any single street. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection works alongside the EPA's federal program on these sites. Treat what follows as the public record worth reviewing when evaluating an address, and as a cue to examine one location closely rather than a finding about it.
On contaminated-site cleanup, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is the state-side partner to the federal EPA Superfund program and runs its own Land Recycling, or Act 2, cleanup program for sites beyond the national list. Because Pennsylvania set its own enforceable PFAS standards early, the state tends to bring those compounds into site cleanup decisions more readily than a strictly federal-default state would. The word "Superfund" lands hard, but it comes with an answer built in: a named state office, working with EPA, is accountable for the work rather than leaving it to chance.
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 |
|---|---|
| Aladdin Plating | Private · NPL: Deleted |
| Avco Lycoming (Williamsport Division) | Private · NPL: Final |
| Baghurst Drive | Private · NPL: Final |
| Boarhead Farms | Private · NPL: Final |
| Chem-Fab | Private · NPL: Final |
| Commodore Semiconductor Group | Private · NPL: Final |
| Dublin Tce Site | Private · NPL: Final |
| Fischer & Porter Co. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Industrial Lane | Private · NPL: Final |
| Letterkenny Army Depot (Pdo Area) | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Letterkenny Army Depot (Se Area) | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Lower Darby Creek Area | Private · NPL: Final |
| Middletown Air Field | Private · NPL: Deleted |
| Moyers Landfill | Private · NPL: Deleted |
| Mw Manufacturing | Private · NPL: Final |
| Naval Air Development Center (8 Waste Areas) | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Navy Ships Parts Control Center | Federal · NPL: Final |
| North Penn - Area 2 | Private · NPL: Final |
| North Penn - Area 5 | Private · NPL: Final |
| Old Wilmington Road Gw Contamination | Private · NPL: Final |
| Osborne Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Palmerton Zinc Pile | Private · NPL: Final |
| Raymark | Private · NPL: Final |
| River Road Landfill (Waste Management, INC.) | Private · NPL: Deleted |
| Rodale Manufacturing Co., INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Safety Light Corporation | Private · NPL: Final |
| Salford Quarry | Private · NPL: Final |
| Strasburg Landfill | Private · NPL: Deleted |
| Tobyhanna Army Depot | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Valmont Tce Site (Former - Valmont Industrial Park) | Private · NPL: Final |
| Watson Johnson Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Willow Grove Naval Air And Air Reserve Station | Federal · NPL: Final |
Check Superfund sites near a specific Pennsylvania address →
VetMyAddress maps nearby EPA Superfund/NPL sites and grades the address A–F alongside its water, PFAS, flood, and air data.
A statewide list maps where federal cleanup attention has gone; it does not rule on your future home. Four factors decide whether a listed site matters for a specific property, and the Pennsylvania DEP's remediation work turns on each: how close the site sits, the type of contamination and the path it might take, how far the cleanup has progressed, and where the home draws its water. Together they answer far more than a count of sites ever will. Pennsylvania layers its own Act 2 program over the federal alphabet (NPL, SEMS, CERCLA), so the paperwork has dialects within dialects.
If Pennsylvania's PFAS-confirmed Superfund list comes back empty, take it as good news rather than a full all-clear. The DEP and EPA track a far wider inventory than the PFAS-confirmed subset shown here, and a home can sit near contamination of other kinds. An empty PFAS list only means none of the cataloged sites are currently flagged for those specific compounds, which is worth knowing but not the same as a clean bill of health for an address.
A site appearing on this page means EPA has confirmed PFAS contamination at a National Priorities List Superfund site somewhere in Pennsylvania. 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, with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) serving as the state-side partner. The DEP also runs its own Land Recycling, or Act 2, cleanup program for the many contaminated sites that fall outside the federal national list.
Pennsylvania pairs the federal EPA Superfund process with its own Act 2 Land Recycling program run by the DEP. Because the state set its own enforceable PFAS standards early, it tends to fold those compounds into site cleanup decisions more readily than a federal-default state.
Pennsylvania's deep industrial legacy in steel, coal, and chemicals is reflected in its listed sites, and the count on this page is drawn live from federal records. A site somewhere in the state is not a verdict on any one home; distance, contamination type, and water source decide relevance.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 32 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) sites in Pennsylvania, including Aladdin Plating, Avco Lycoming (Williamsport Division), Baghurst Drive. 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 Pennsylvania 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.