Pollution & Cleanup
Read this as a statewide screening list, not an address check. A site listed somewhere in Vermont does not mean a given home is affected, and that distinction is the whole point. Vermont's industrial footprint is relatively light compared with larger manufacturing states, with cleanup history shaped more by scattered legacy manufacturing and resource activity than by dense industrial corridors. Alongside EPA's federal program, the Department of Environmental Conservation serves as the state-side partner on cleanup and has been comparatively active on contamination issues. Use 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 Vermont runs as a partnership. The state-side partner is the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), which works alongside EPA on listed sites and typically operates its own state site-management and waste-cleanup program for contaminated properties beyond the federal list. On PFAS at contaminated sites, Vermont has tended toward a more forward posture, having set its own enforceable drinking-water limit ahead of the federal rule. The point to hold: Superfund names a federal process, but Vermont's day-to-day oversight belongs to a named and notably active office, the DEC.
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 |
|---|---|
| Bennington Municipal Sanitary Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Bfi Sanitary Landfill (Rockingham) | Private · NPL: Final |
| Burgess Brothers Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Commerce Street Plume | Private · NPL: Final |
| Jard Company, INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Old Springfield Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Parker Sanitary Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Pownal Tannery | Private · NPL: Final |
Check Superfund sites near a specific Vermont 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 Vermont is welcome, but it is not a full all-clear. The PFAS-confirmed flag is a narrow federal filter, and the DEC's broader site inventory, in a state that has tracked PFAS closely, captures contamination this filter would miss. Read an empty result as good news with a caveat, 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 Vermont. 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 Conservation (DEC) is the state-side partner. The DEC co-manages cleanup alongside EPA and runs Vermont's own contaminated-site and waste-cleanup efforts for properties that fall outside the federal National Priorities List.
Federal Superfund sites in Vermont are tracked on EPA's National Priorities List and reflected in the screening list above. A listing marks a site as a federal cleanup priority rather than a judgment on nearby homes, and the DEC partners with EPA on the cleanup work statewide.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 8 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) sites in Vermont, including Bennington Municipal Sanitary Landfill, Bfi Sanitary Landfill (Rockingham), Burgess Brothers Landfill. 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 Vermont 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.