Marine Corps Contaminated Installations
15 Marine Corps 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.
Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms
A look at documented contaminant concerns and the ongoing environmental cleanup at the Marine Corps base in Twentynine Palms, California.
Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort
An overview of PFAS related groundwater concerns and ongoing well testing at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina.
Marine Corps Air Station Miramar
A San Diego Marine Corps air station with documented PFAS contamination from firefighting foam and ongoing cleanup.
Marine Corps Base Hawaii
An overview of environmental contamination concerns, including PFAS and AFFF, at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay.
Marine Corps Base Quantico
An overview of documented environmental contamination at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, and what it may mean for veterans.
Marine Corps Outlying Landing Field Atlantic
PFAS was detected in private drinking water wells near MCOLF Atlantic, a Marine Corps airfield in Carteret County, North Carolina.
Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow
An overview of documented soil and groundwater contamination at Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, a federal Superfund site in California.
Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island
Parris Island, a Marine Corps recruit depot in South Carolina, has documented PCE, PCB, and heavy metal contamination.
Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point
MCAS Cherry Point in Havelock, North Carolina, a Superfund site since 1994, has documented PFAS, TCE, and PCB contamination from decades of air station operations.
Marine Corps Air Station Yuma
MCAS Yuma in Arizona was added to the Superfund list in 1990 after solvents such as TCE and PCE were found in groundwater beneath the air station.
Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany
MCLB Albany in Georgia was added to the Superfund National Priorities List in 1989 after landfill operations, industrial spills, and leaking PCB transformers contaminated soil and groundwater.
Marine Corps Air Station Tustin
Fuels and solvents from helicopter and blimp operations at the former MCAS Tustin in California contaminated soil and groundwater with TCE and other VOCs, and Navy-led cleanup continues today.
Marine Corps Air Station El Toro
TCE, PCBs, solvents, and jet fuel contaminated soil and groundwater at MCAS El Toro in California, a Superfund site where cleanup is expected to continue for decades.
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
Camp Pendleton, an EPA Superfund site since 1989, has documented PFAS, TCE, and solvent contamination tied to decades of waste disposal and firefighting foam use.
Camp Lejeune
One of the largest Marine Corps bases in the country, and the site of one of the most serious drinking-water contaminations in U.S. history.