Pollution & Cleanup
This is a statewide screening list, not an address check. A site listed somewhere in South Dakota does not mean any particular home is affected, and it is important to hold that distinction firmly. South Dakota's cleanup history is shaped less by dense manufacturing than by its mining and resource legacy and scattered industrial activity, which tends to concentrate environmental concerns in specific corridors rather than spread them evenly. Alongside EPA's federal program, the state's Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources acts as the state-side partner on cleanup. Use what the public records show here as a reason to look closer when evaluating an address, not as a conclusion about it.
The federal Superfund program is run by EPA, but it does not work alone. In South Dakota, the state-side partner is the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (DANR), which co-manages cleanup work and typically runs a state-level site-remediation program for contaminated properties that fall outside the federal list. On PFAS at contaminated sites, South Dakota tends to lean on the federal framework rather than its own enforceable limit. The short version: the word Superfund names a federal process, but there is a state office with people who track this work day to day.
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 |
|---|---|
| Ellsworth Air Force Base | Federal · NPL: Final |
Check Superfund sites near a specific South Dakota address →
VetMyAddress maps nearby EPA Superfund/NPL sites and grades the address A–F alongside its water, PFAS, flood, and air data.
No PFAS-confirmed Superfund sites appearing for South Dakota is genuinely reassuring, but it is not a full all-clear. The federal PFAS-confirmed flag is narrow, and DANR's broader site inventory tracks contamination that this particular filter would not catch. Read an empty result as good news with an asterisk, then let an address-level look fill in the rest.
A site appearing on this page means EPA has confirmed PFAS contamination at a National Priorities List Superfund site somewhere in South Dakota. 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 itself is a federal EPA program, but the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (DANR) is the state-side partner. DANR co-manages cleanup work alongside EPA and runs South Dakota's own contaminated-site and voluntary-cleanup efforts for properties that sit outside the federal National Priorities List.
A Superfund site is a contaminated location that EPA has identified as a national cleanup priority under the federal CERCLA law. Listing reflects a federal assessment of contamination, not an automatic judgment about nearby homes, and in South Dakota DANR works alongside EPA on the cleanup.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 1 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) site in South Dakota, including Ellsworth Air Force Base. 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 South Dakota 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.