Pollution & Cleanup
It is worth saying plainly up front: the list below is a statewide screening inventory, not an address check. A Superfund site somewhere in Virginia does not mean a specific home is affected, and the distance, geology, and water source between the two matter enormously. Virginia's industrial story is a mixed one, shaped by a long military footprint, shipbuilding and port activity, and pockets of heavy manufacturing, and that history is part of what the records reflect. The Department of Environmental Quality works as the state-side partner to EPA's federal program here. Read what follows as context worth reviewing when evaluating an address, not a finding about any one property.
On the Superfund side, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is the state-side partner working alongside the federal EPA to track and clean up the worst contaminated sites. Beyond the federal National Priorities List, DEQ typically runs its own state-level remediation and voluntary-cleanup efforts for sites that fall below the federal threshold but still need attention. When PFAS shows up at a contaminated site, Virginia tends to address it through that combined federal-and-state framework rather than a separately advertised state standard. The reassuring part is simply that a named office is paying attention.
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 |
|---|---|
| Arrowhead Associates, INC./Scovill Corp. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Defense General Supply Center (Dla) | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Dupont Spruance Plant | Private · NPL: Not on NPL |
| Fort Eustis (US Army) | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Hidden Lane Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Langley Air Force Base/Nasa Langley Research Center | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Marine Corps Combat Development Command | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Nasa Wallops Flight Facility | Federal · NPL: Not on NPL |
| Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Naval Surface Warfare Center - Dahlgren | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Naval Weapons Station - Yorktown | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Norfolk Naval Base (Sewells Point Naval Complex) | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Norfolk Naval Shipyard | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Nws Yorktown - Cheatham Annex | Federal · NPL: Final |
| St. Juliens Creek Annex (U.S. Navy) | Federal · NPL: Final |
Check Superfund sites near a specific Virginia 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 is a starting map, not a verdict on your future doorstep, and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality's remediation role is part of why a listed site is being managed rather than ignored. Four things shape whether a site near an address actually matters, and the list alone answers none of them: how far the site sits from the home, what was contaminated and whether there is a pathway to reach people, how far along the cleanup has progressed, and where the home draws its water. Superfund's paperwork has a dialect all its own, NPL and SEMS and CERCLA, but the human question underneath is simple: does this reach me, and how close is it to resolved.
If Virginia shows no PFAS-confirmed NPL sites below, that is genuinely worth noting, but it is not a full all-clear. It means the federal list has not flagged PFAS at a Superfund site here, while DEQ's broader site inventory may still track contamination the headline list does not capture. The calm next step for any single address is the report, not the statewide tally.
A site appearing on this page means EPA has confirmed PFAS contamination at a National Priorities List Superfund site somewhere in Virginia. 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 cleanup in Virginia is co-managed: the federal EPA leads on National Priorities List sites, and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) serves as the state-side partner, often running additional state remediation and voluntary-cleanup programs for sites outside the federal list.
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, or DEQ, is the state's lead environmental agency. On contaminated-site work it partners with the federal EPA on Superfund sites and tends to manage its own state-level cleanup programs for sites that do not reach the federal threshold.
The list on this page draws from the federal National Priorities List for Virginia, the same data EPA maintains. It shows sites statewide rather than for one address, so it is a useful overview to review, with a property-specific report as the next step for any particular home.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 15 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) sites in Virginia, including Arrowhead Associates, INC./Scovill Corp., Defense General Supply Center (Dla), Dupont Spruance Plant. 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 Virginia 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.