This is a list of Superfund sites in Massachusetts designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations.[1] These locations are known as Superfund sites, and are placed on the National Priorities List (NPL).
The NPL guides the EPA in "determining which sites warrant further investigation" for environmental remediation.[2] As of November 29, 2010, there were 31 Superfund sites on the National Priorities List in Massachusetts.[2] One additional site is currently proposed for entry on the list.[2] Four sites have been cleaned up and removed from the list.[2]
CERCLIS ID | Name | County | Reason | Proposed | Listed | Construction completed |
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MA2570024487 | Otis Air National Guard Base (USAF) | Barnstable | [3] | 07/14/1989 | 11/21/1989 | – |
10/26/2007 | –
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MAD980520670 | Fort Devens-Sudbury Training Annex (USARMY) | Middlesex | Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), pesticides, and inorganics above drinking water standards.[4][5] | 07/14/1989 | 02/21/1990 | 09/19/2000 | – |
01/29/2002 |
MA8570024424 | Hanscom Field/Hanscom Air Force Base (USAF) | Middlesex | [6][7] | 05/10/1993 | 05/31/1994 | 09/28/2007 | – |
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MA0213820939 | Materials Technology Laboratory (USARMY) | Middlesex | [8][9] | 06/23/1993 | 05/31/1994 | 09/29/2005 | 11/22/1999 | 11/21/2006 |
MA1210020631 | Natick Laboratory Army Research, Development, & Engineering Center (USARMY) | Middlesex | Soil, groundwater, and surface water are contaminated with various VOCs, naphthalene, Freon 113, and a variety of heavy metals such as barium, mercury, arsenic, copper, chromium, lead, and zinc.[10][11] | 05/10/1993 | 05/31/1994 | – |
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MA6170023570 | Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant (USNAVY) | Middlesex | [12][13] | 06/23/1993 | 05/31/1994 | – |
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MA2170022022 | South Weymouth Naval Air Station (USNAVY) | Norfolk | [14][15] | 06/23/1993 | 05/31/1994 | – |
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MA7210025154 | Fort Devens (USARMY) | Worcester and Middlesex | [16][17] | 07/14/1989 | 11/21/1989 | – |
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CERCLIS ID | Name | Town/City | County | Reason | Proposed | Listed | Construction completed |
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MAD001031574 | Creese and Cook Tannery (former) | Danvers | Essex | [1] | 09/18/2012 | – |
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MAD001197755 | Walton & Lonsbury | Attleboro | Bristol | [2] | – |
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MAD002084093 | GE-Pittsfield and Housatonic River | Pittsfield and Lenox | Berkshire | [3] | 09/25/1997 | – |
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MAD980524169 | Rose Disposal Pit | Lanesborough | Berkshire | [4] | 10/15/1984 | 06/10/1986 | 09/20/1994 | – |
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MAD001026319 | Atlas Tack Corp. | Fairhaven | Bristol | [5] | |||||
MAD001060805 | Hatheway and Patterson Company | Mansfield | Bristol | [6] | |||||
MAD980731335 | New Bedford Site | New Bedford, Fairhaven, Acushnet, and Dartmouth | Bristol | [7] | |||||
MAD980520621 | Re-Solve, Inc. | Dartmouth | Bristol | [8] | |||||
MAD980503973 | Shpack Landfill | Attleboro and Norton | Bristol | [9] | 10/15/1984 | 06/10/1986 | – |
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09/05/2017
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MAD980731343 | Sullivan's Ledge | New Bedford | Bristol | [10] | |||||
MAD980732317 | Groveland Wells | Groveland | Essex | [11] | |||||
MAD980523336 | Haverhill Municipal Landfill | Haverhill | Essex | [12] | |||||
MAD980525240 | Salem Acres | Salem | Essex | [13] | 10/15/1984 | 06/10/1986 | 09/23/1999 | – |
07/23/2001 |
MAD980731483 | PSC Resources | Palmer | Hampden | [14] | |||||
MAD003809266 | Charles-George Reclamation Trust Landfill | Tyngsborough | Middlesex | [15] | 10/23/1981 | ||||
MAD076580950 | Industri-Plex | Woburn | Middlesex | [16] | |||||
MAD051787323 | Iron Horse Park | Billerica | Middlesex | [17] | |||||
MAD062166335 | Nuclear Metals, Inc. | Concord | Middlesex | Radioactive waste, 1,4-dioxane, and VOCs in on-site landfill, soil, and groundwater[18][19] | 07/27/2000 | 06/14/2001 | – |
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MAD990685422 | Nyanza Chemical Waste Dump | Ashland | Middlesex | [18] | 10/23/1981 | 09/08/1983 | |||
MAD001403104 | Olin Chemical | Wilmington | Middlesex | [19] | |||||
MAD000192393 | Silresim Chemical Corp. | Lowell | Middlesex | [20] | |||||
MAD980520696 | Sutton Brook Disposal Area | Tewksbury | Middlesex | [21] | |||||
MAD001002252 | W.R. Grace & Co., Inc. (Acton Plant) | Acton and Concord | Middlesex | [22] | 12/30/1982 | 09/08/1983 | – |
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MAD980732168 | Wells G&H | Woburn | Middlesex | [23] | 12/30/1982 | 09/08/1983 | – |
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MAD001041987 | Baird & McGuire | Holbrook | Norfolk | [24] | 12/30/1982 | 09/08/1983 | |||
MAD982191363 | Blackburn & Union Privileges | Walpole | Norfolk | [25] | |||||
MAD980670566 | Norwood PCBs | Norwood | Norfolk | [26] | |||||
MAD079510780 | Cannon Engineering Corp. (CEC) | Bridgewater | Plymouth | [27] | |||||
MAD980525232 | Plymouth Harbor/Cannon Engineering Corp. | Plymouth | Plymouth | [28] | 12/30/1982 | 09/08/1983 | 05/29/1992 | – |
11/19/1993 |
MAD980732341 | Hocomonco Pond | Westborough | Worcester | [29] | 12/30/1982 | 09/08/1983 | 09/22/1999 | – |
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