In 1980 the U.S. Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (also known as Superfund) to clean up serious hazardous waste sites that are placed on the National Priorities List. The US Environmental Protection Agency administers the Superfund program in Virginia, and the Department of Environmental Quality performs necessary activities mandated by the Superfund law. DEQ is not involved in day-to-day activities. Superfund cleanups are progressing as scheduled in Virginia.
Individual Superfund sites
Private sites on National Priorities List
- Abex Corporation, Portsmouth
- Arrowhead Associates, Westmoreland County
- Atlantic Wood Industries, Portsmouth
- Avtex Fibers, Warren County
- Buckingham County Landfill, Buckingham County
- C & R Battery Company, Chesterfield County
- Chisman Creek, York County
- Culpeper Wood Preservers, Culpeper County
- First Piedmont Rock Quarry, Pittsylvania County
- Greenwood Chemical Company, Albemarle County
- H & H Burn Pit, Hanover County
- Hidden Lane Landfill, Loudoun County
- Kim-Stan Landfill, Alleghany County
- L. A. Clarke and Son, Spotsylvania County
- Rentokil (Virginia Wood Preserving), Henrico County
- Saltville Waste Disposal Ponds, Smyth County
- Saunders Supply Co., Suffolk
- US Titanium, Nelson County
- Defense Supply Center Richmond, Chesterfield County
- Fort Eustis, Newport News
- Former Nansemond Ordnance Depot, Suffolk
- Langley Air Force Base, Hampton
- Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico
- NASA-Langley Research Center, Hampton
- Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Virginia Beach
- Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren
- Norfolk Naval Base, Norfolk
- Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Norfolk
- USN St. Julien's Creek Annex, Chesapeake
- Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, York County
- Yorktown Naval Weapons Station Cheatham Annex , York County
Sites deleted from National Priorities List