Pollution & Cleanup
Up front and plainly: what follows is a statewide screening list, not a check on any one address. A site listed somewhere in Wisconsin says nothing definite about a particular home until you know the distance, the pathway, and the home's water source. Wisconsin's industrial history runs through paper and pulp mills, heavy manufacturing, and tanning and metalworking in places, along with a military presence, and the records partly reflect that. The Department of Natural Resources serves as the state-side partner to EPA's federal program here. Treat the list as background worth reviewing when evaluating an address, not a conclusion about a single property.
For contaminated-site cleanup, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is the state-side partner to the federal EPA, co-managing National Priorities List sites and running its own remediation and redevelopment program for the many sites that fall outside the federal list. Because Wisconsin moved early on PFAS generally, the DNR tends to fold PFAS at contaminated sites into that combined state-and-federal approach. The orienting point under the heavy word Superfund is that a single named office, the DNR, manages this cleanup work across the state.
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 |
|---|---|
| Algoma Municipal Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Better Brite Plating Co. Chrome And Zinc Shops | Private · NPL: Final |
| Lemberger Landfill, INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Lemberger Transport & Recycling | Private · NPL: Final |
| Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District Lagoons | Private · NPL: Final |
| Mid-State Disposal, INC. Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| N.W. Mauthe Co., INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Oconomowoc Electroplating Co., INC. | Private · NPL: Final |
| Spickler Landfill | Private · NPL: Final |
| Unity Auto Mart | Private · NPL: Final |
| Wausau Ground Water Contamination | Private · NPL: Final |
Check Superfund sites near a specific Wisconsin 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 points you toward where to look; it does not pass judgment on any one home, and because the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources stays active on remediation, a listed site is one being worked rather than ignored. Four factors decide whether a nearby site truly matters to an address, and the list addresses none of them on its own: the distance between site and home, the kind of contamination and whether a pathway reaches people, how far the cleanup has progressed, and where the home gets its water. Superfund talks in CERCLA and NPL and SEMS, a dialect all its own, but the real question stays plain: does this reach me, and is it close to resolved.
If Wisconsin shows no PFAS-confirmed NPL sites below, that is worth noting without overreading it. It means the federal list has not flagged PFAS at a Superfund site here, yet the DNR's broader cleanup inventory may still track contamination the federal headline misses, so it is not a full all-clear. For any single address, the calm next step is the property report rather than the statewide count.
A site appearing on this page means EPA has confirmed PFAS contamination at a National Priorities List Superfund site somewhere in Wisconsin. 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 Wisconsin is co-managed: the federal EPA leads on National Priorities List sites, while the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) acts as the state-side partner and runs its own remediation and redevelopment program for sites that fall outside the federal list.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, or DNR, is the state's lead environmental agency. On contaminated-site work it partners with the federal EPA on Superfund sites and manages a broad state-level cleanup and redevelopment program for sites that do not reach the federal threshold.
The list on this page is drawn from the federal National Priorities List for Wisconsin, the same data EPA maintains. It covers sites statewide rather than for one address, making it a useful overview to review, with a property-specific report as the sensible next step for any single home.
Our curated EPA dataset lists 11 PFAS-confirmed Superfund (NPL) sites in Wisconsin, including Algoma Municipal Landfill, Better Brite Plating Co. Chrome And Zinc Shops, Lemberger Landfill, INC.. 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 Wisconsin 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.