Pollution & Cleanup
Read this as a statewide screening list, not an address check. A site listed somewhere in Utah does not mean a particular home is affected, and that line matters. Utah's cleanup history leans heavily on its mining and ore-processing legacy along with military and defense activity, which tends to concentrate environmental concerns in specific basins and corridors rather than spread them statewide. Alongside EPA's federal program, the Department of Environmental Quality serves as the state-side partner on cleanup. Treat what the public records show here as a reason to look more closely when evaluating an address, not as a conclusion about it.
Superfund is a federal EPA program, but cleanup in Utah runs as a partnership. The state-side partner is the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), which works alongside EPA on listed sites and typically operates its own state remediation and voluntary-cleanup program for contaminated properties outside the federal list. On PFAS at contaminated sites, Utah tends to lean on the federal framework rather than its own enforceable limit. In plain terms: Superfund names a federal process, but the day-to-day state oversight belongs to a named office, the DEQ.
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 |
|---|---|
| Hill Air Force Base | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Tooele Army Depot (North Area) | Federal · NPL: Final |
Check Superfund sites near a specific Utah 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 showing for Utah is genuinely good news, but it is not a full all-clear. The PFAS-confirmed flag is a narrow federal filter, and the DEQ's broader site inventory tracks contamination this filter would miss. Read an empty result as encouraging, then let an address-level look round out the picture.
A site appearing on this page means EPA has confirmed PFAS contamination at a National Priorities List Superfund site somewhere in Utah. 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, but the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is the state-side partner. The DEQ co-manages cleanup alongside EPA and runs Utah'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 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 Utah the DEQ works alongside EPA on the cleanup.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 2 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) sites in Utah, including Hill Air Force Base, Tooele Army Depot (North Area). 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 Utah 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.