Navy Contaminated Installations
57 Navy 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.
Former Naval Air Station Glenview
Former Navy air station in Glenview, Illinois, where landfill PCB, metal, and other contamination has prompted an ongoing Navy cleanup.
Former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
The former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, a historic Navy installation closed under BRAC, has been associated with several environmental contaminants.
Naval Air Station Corpus Christi
Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, a Navy flight training base in Texas, has been associated with PFAS concerns tied to AFFF firefighting foam.
Naval Air Station Fallon
Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada, home to TOPGUN, has been associated with severe PFAS contamination from firefighting foam.
Naval Air Station Kingsville
Naval Air Station Kingsville is a Navy jet training base in Texas under investigation for PFAS in groundwater.
Naval Air Station Lemoore
A profile of PFAS and related water contamination concerns at Naval Air Station Lemoore, the Navy's largest master jet base in California.
Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek
A look at documented contamination and Superfund cleanup at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek in Virginia Beach.
Naval Base San Diego
Naval Base San Diego is a major Navy surface ship base where decades of shipyard work have prompted environmental cleanup.
Naval Base Ventura County
A look at documented PFAS, fuel, and solvent contamination at Naval Base Ventura County in California and what it may mean for veterans.
Naval Construction Battalion Center Gulfport
Concerns about PFAS in groundwater at NCBC Gulfport, traced to firefighting foam used at a former training area.
Naval Station Mayport
A profile of Naval Station Mayport in Florida and the PFAS, AFFF, and asbestos concerns documented there.
Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay
Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in Georgia appears on a federal list of installations with PFAS concerns linked to firefighting foam.
Naval Support Activity Mid-South
A look at PFAS groundwater concerns at Naval Support Activity Mid-South, the former Naval Air Station Memphis in Millington, Tennessee.
Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach
A look at documented environmental contamination at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach and the ongoing Navy cleanup program.
Whitehouse Naval Outlying Field
A Navy outlying field west of Jacksonville named in a federal report on PFAS-affected drinking water near military sites.
Adak Naval Air Station
A former 76,000-acre Navy installation in the Aleutians, placed on the EPA Superfund list in 1994 over fuel, PCB, and solvent contamination.
Former Naval Air Station South Weymouth
A look at contamination concerns and ongoing CERCLA cleanup at the former Naval Air Station South Weymouth in Massachusetts.
Hastings Naval Ammunition Depot
A former WWII Navy munitions plant near Hastings, Nebraska, now part of a Superfund groundwater cleanup site.
Indian Head Naval Surface Warfare Center
An active Navy energetics R&D site in Charles County, Maryland, added to the EPA Superfund National Priorities List in 1995.
Jackson Park Housing Complex
A Navy housing complex near Bremerton on a former ammunition depot, listed as a Superfund site in 1994 over soil and sediment contamination.
Mare Island Naval Shipyard
A profile of the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California, and the environmental concerns tied to its cleanup.
Former Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster (Naval Air Development Center)
The former Naval Air Development Center in Warminster, Pennsylvania is a Superfund site with documented groundwater, solvent, and PFAS contamination.
Naval Air Station Cecil Field
A former Navy master jet base near Jacksonville, Florida, with documented PFAS, solvent, and fuel contamination concerns.
Naval Air Station North Island
Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, California faces scrutiny over the Fiery Marsh dump and groundwater contamination.
Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor
A Navy submarine base on Hood Canal in Washington with two Superfund listings and ongoing PFAS investigations.
Naval Base Point Loma
Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego has documented solvent, metal, jet fuel and PFAS contamination under state-regulated cleanup.
Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific
A Navy communications station at Wahiawa, Oahu placed on the EPA Superfund list in 1994 for PCBs and other soil contaminants.
Naval Construction Battalion Center Davisville
A former Navy Seabee base in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, listed as a Superfund site in 1989 for soil and groundwater contamination.
Naval Education and Training Center Newport
An overview of documented contamination and ongoing federal cleanup at the Navy's education and training complex in Newport, Rhode Island.
Naval Industrial Reserve Ordnance Plant (Fridley)
A Navy-owned weapons plant in Fridley, Minnesota where solvent dumping led to a Superfund groundwater cleanup.
Naval Magazine Indian Island
A Navy ordnance facility near Port Townsend, Washington, listed as a Superfund site in 1994 over landfill and spill contamination.
Naval Submarine Base New London
Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut is a Superfund site where solvents, metals, PCBs and PFAS have been documented.
Naval Support Activity Mechanicsburg
A Navy supply installation in Pennsylvania listed on the Superfund NPL for groundwater and soil contamination.
Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division
An overview of documented contamination and ongoing Superfund cleanup at the Navy weapons-testing facility in Dahlgren, Virginia.
Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport
A Navy torpedo and undersea systems facility in Kitsap County, Washington, listed as a Superfund site with documented soil, groundwater, and sediment contamination.
Naval Weapons Station Earle
A Navy munitions base in Monmouth County, New Jersey, listed as a Superfund site in 1990 for solvent, metal, and PFAS contamination.
Naval Weapons Station Yorktown
Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, a Navy ordnance station in Virginia, is an EPA Superfund site with documented soil and groundwater contamination.
Naval Weapons Station Yorktown - Cheatham Annex
A Navy munitions support annex in York County, Virginia, listed as a Superfund site in 2001 for explosives and other contamination.
Naval Station Norfolk (Sewells Point Naval Complex)
Naval Station Norfolk is a Superfund site where PFAS, PCBs, solvents, and metals have been documented during ongoing cleanup.
Norfolk Naval Shipyard
Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, a Superfund site listed in 1999 with documented PCB, heavy metal, and solvent contamination.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine is a former Superfund site associated with PCBs, metals, benzene, and PFAS.
Naval Air Station Moffett Field
Decades of naval aviation at Moffett Field in California left TCE, PCE, and PCBs in soil and groundwater, placing the base on the EPA Superfund list in 1987.
Naval Air Station Patuxent River
PFAS, firefighting foam, solvents, and heavy metals have been documented at this Maryland Superfund-listed naval aviation test center on the Chesapeake Bay.
Naval Air Station Pensacola
NAS Pensacola, the Navy's first air station, was added to the Superfund list in 1989 after solvents, heavy metals, radium waste, and later PFAS were documented in soil and groundwater.
Naval Air Station Whiting Field
A Florida Navy training base where AFFF use and industrial operations left PFAS and solvent contamination, designated a Superfund site in 1994.
Naval Air Station Oceana
Decades of AFFF use at NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach contaminated groundwater, and Navy sampling since 2016 has found PFAS in private drinking water wells near the master jet base and its Fentress outlying field.
Naval Station Treasure Island
The former Navy training station in San Francisco Bay hosted nuclear warfare academies whose radium and cesium-137 contamination has prompted an ongoing state-supervised cleanup as the island is redeveloped.
Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant Bethpage
TCE and other solvents from the Navy-owned, Grumman-operated Bethpage plant created Long Island's largest groundwater plume, now spanning more than 3,000 acres in Nassau County's aquifer.
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, a Superfund site since 1989, has documented radiation, PCB, heavy metal, and solvent contamination, with cleanup still unresolved.
Naval Air Station Alameda
Former Navy airfield on San Francisco Bay where solvents, fuels, PCBs, radium, and heavy metals from decades of aircraft work led to a 1999 Superfund listing.
Former Naval Air Station Brunswick
Concerns about PFAS, firefighting foam, and legacy solvents at the former Naval Air Station Brunswick in Maine.
Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove
Groundwater at the former NAS JRB Willow Grove in Pennsylvania tested at 329,500 ppt of combined PFOS and PFOA from firefighting foam, affecting area drinking water and prompting a Superfund cleanup.
Naval Air Station Whidbey Island
NAS Whidbey Island in Washington has documented PFAS, PFOS, PFOA, AFFF, and solvent contamination, and both Ault Field and the Seaplane Base have been EPA Superfund sites.
Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster
PFAS from firefighting foam and solvent contamination at the former Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster affected drinking water wells in surrounding Bucks County communities.
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington is an EPA Superfund site where heavy metals, PCBs, and asbestos have raised concerns about potential health risks for workers and veterans.
Naval Air Station Jacksonville
A major Navy installation in Florida designated a Superfund site after chlorinated solvents reached soil and groundwater.
Allegany Ballistics Laboratory
A Navy rocket-propellant and energetics complex in West Virginia where solvent and explosives use left groundwater contamination.