Military Base Contamination in California
16 installations in California 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.
Castle Air Force Base
Castle Air Force Base, a former SAC training base near Merced, California, is an EPA Superfund site where TCE, other solvents, and PFAS have been documented in soil and groundwater.
Edwards Air Force Base
The Air Force flight test center in the Mojave Desert, a Superfund site since 1990 with solvents, jet fuel, and PFAS documented in soil and groundwater.
Fort Ord
A former Army training center on Monterey Bay, closed in 1994 and designated a Superfund site for soil and groundwater contamination.
George Air Force Base
George Air Force Base in Victorville, California, a closed fighter training base and EPA Superfund site, has documented TCE, PCE, benzene, jet fuel, and PFAS contamination.
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.
March Air Reserve Base
Groundwater contamination with TCE, PCE, jet fuel, and solvents at March Air Reserve Base in California has raised concerns about potential health effects for veterans and nearby residents.
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 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 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.
Mather Air Force Base
Mather Air Force Base, a former navigator training installation near Sacramento, California, is a Superfund site where TCE and other solvents contaminated groundwater.
McClellan Air Force Base
A former Air Force logistics hub near Sacramento, now a Superfund site contaminated with solvents, heavy metals, and PCBs.
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.
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 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.
Norton Air Force Base
Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, California operated from 1942 to 1994 and was placed on the EPA Superfund list in 1987 after TCE, PCBs, and other contaminants were found in soil and groundwater.
Travis Air Force Base
Travis Air Force Base near Fairfield, California, an EPA Superfund site since 1989, has documented TCE, benzene, heavy metal and PFAS contamination in groundwater, soil and Union Creek.