Joint Contaminated Installations
13 Joint installations are profiled on this site for documented environmental contamination. Each page covers what was found, the cleanup status, and the health concerns for those who served there.
Joint Base Charleston
Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, has documented PFAS contamination from decades of firefighting foam use.
Defense Depot Ogden
Defense Depot Ogden in Weber County, Utah is an EPA Superfund site where solvents, PCBs and metals affected soil and groundwater.
Idaho National Laboratory
Idaho National Laboratory is an 890 square mile DOE nuclear research site near Idaho Falls listed as a Superfund site in 1989.
Joint Base Andrews (Naval Air Facility Washington)
Joint Base Andrews in Maryland is an NPL Superfund site where PFAS from firefighting foam has affected groundwater.
Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth (Carswell Field)
Profile of NAS JRB Fort Worth (Carswell Field), where a TCE groundwater plume and PFAS investigations raise exposure concerns.
Rocky Flats Plant
Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado made plutonium nuclear-weapon components and left documented radioactive and chemical contamination.
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska combines two Superfund sites where fuels, solvents, and PFAS firefighting foam have been documented in soil and groundwater.
Joint Base Langley-Eustis
Both components of Virginia's Joint Base Langley-Eustis are 1994 Superfund sites, with PFAS from firefighting foam found in groundwater at levels among the highest recorded on any U.S. military installation.
Memphis Defense Depot
Memphis Defense Depot, a 642-acre DLA supply installation in south Memphis, has been associated with TCE, PCE, solvent, and heavy metal contamination and was added to the Superfund list in 1992.
Joint Base Cape Cod (Otis Air National Guard Base/Camp Edwards)
Joint Base Cape Cod, a Superfund site since 1989, sits atop Cape Cod's sole-source aquifer, where fuel spills, solvents and firefighting foam created groundwater plumes containing TCE, benzene and PFAS.
Joint Base Lewis-McChord
Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington has documented TCE, solvent, petroleum, and PFAS contamination, and portions of the base are EPA Superfund sites.
Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam
Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii has documented contamination from jet fuel, heavy metals, and solvents, and the Pearl Harbor Naval Complex is an EPA Superfund site.
Joint Base San Antonio
The 2010 merger of Randolph AFB, Lackland AFB, and Fort Sam Houston, with exposure concerns spanning all three legacy installations.