Pollution & Cleanup
Worth stating plainly at the start: the list below is a statewide screening inventory, not an address check. A Superfund site somewhere in West Virginia does not mean a particular home is affected; the distance, the geology, and the home's water source decide that. The state's industrial story is shaped heavily by chemical manufacturing, coal and mining legacies, and river-valley industry, and that history is part of what the records reflect. The Department of Environmental Protection works as the state-side partner to EPA's federal program here. Read the list as context worth reviewing when evaluating an address, not a finding about any single property.
On contaminated-site cleanup, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) is the state-side partner to the federal EPA, helping track and remediate the most serious sites and typically running its own voluntary-remediation and site-cleanup efforts for sites below the federal National Priorities List threshold. When PFAS appears at a contaminated site, West Virginia tends to handle it through that combined state-and-federal approach rather than a separately advertised state standard. For a word as heavy as Superfund, the orienting fact is that WVDEP is a named office actively managing this work.
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 |
|---|---|
| Allegany Ballistics Laboratory (Usnavy) | Federal · NPL: Final |
| Paden City Groundwater | Private · NPL: Final |
Check Superfund sites near a specific West Virginia address →
VetMyAddress maps nearby EPA Superfund/NPL sites and grades the address A–F alongside its water, PFAS, flood, and air data.
Think of a statewide list as a place to start asking questions, never as a ruling on a particular doorstep; the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection's remediation role is exactly why a listed site is one under management. Four things decide whether a nearby site actually matters to an address, and the list answers none of them by itself: how far the site is from the home, what was contaminated and whether a pathway reaches people, how far the cleanup has advanced, and where the home draws its water. Superfund's vocabulary, CERCLA and NPL and SEMS, has a dialect of its own, but the human question stays simple: does this reach me, and how close is it to done.
If West Virginia shows no PFAS-confirmed NPL sites below, note it, but do not read it as a full all-clear. It means the federal list has not flagged PFAS at a Superfund site here, while WVDEP's broader site inventory may still track contamination the federal headline does not capture. For any single address, the sensible next step is the property report rather than the statewide tally.
A site appearing on this page means EPA has confirmed PFAS contamination at a National Priorities List Superfund site somewhere in West 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 West Virginia is co-managed: the federal EPA leads on National Priorities List sites, and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) acts as the state-side partner, typically running additional state remediation and voluntary-cleanup programs for sites outside the federal list.
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, or WVDEP, is the state's lead environmental agency. On Superfund listings it acts as the state-side counterpart to the federal EPA, and it generally oversees West Virginia's own voluntary-remediation work for sites that never reach the federal list.
The list on this page comes from the federal National Priorities List for West Virginia, the same data EPA maintains. It is a statewide roll-up rather than an address lookup, so use it to get oriented, then rely on a property-specific report for any one home.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 2 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) sites in West Virginia, including Allegany Ballistics Laboratory (Usnavy), Paden City Groundwater. 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 West 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.