List of Superfund sites in Massachusetts

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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]

## Superfund sites

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Proposed for addition to National Priorities List
Deleted from National Priorities List

### Military sites

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CERCLIS ID | Name | County | Reason | Proposed | Listed | Construction
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MA2570024487 | Otis Air National Guard Base (USAF) | Barnstable | [3] | 07/14/1989 | 11/21/1989 |

| 10/26/2007 |

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 |

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 |

MA6170023570 | Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant (USNAVY) | Middlesex | [12][13] | 06/23/1993 | 05/31/1994 |

MA2170022022 | South Weymouth Naval Air Station (USNAVY) | Norfolk | [14][15] | 06/23/1993 | 05/31/1994 |

MA7210025154 | Fort Devens (USARMY) | Worcester and Middlesex | [16][17] | 07/14/1989 | 11/21/1989 |

### Commercial sites

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CERCLIS ID | Name | Town/City | County | Reason | Proposed | Listed | Construction
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MAD001031574 | Creese and Cook Tannery (former) |  Danvers | Essex | [1] | 09/18/2012 |

MAD001197755 | Walton & Lonsbury |  Attleboro | Bristol | [2] |

MAD002084093 | GE-Pittsfield and Housatonic River | Pittsfield and Lenox | Berkshire | [3] | 09/25/1997 |

MAD980524169 | Rose Disposal Pit |  Lanesborough | Berkshire | [4] | 10/15/1984 | 06/10/1986 | 09/20/1994 |

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 |

09/05/2017

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 |

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 |

MAD980732168 | Wells G&H |  Woburn | Middlesex | [23] | 12/30/1982 | 09/08/1983 |

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 |

## See also

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* List of Superfund sites in the United States
* List of environmental issues
* List of waste types
* TOXMAP

## References

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1. ^ P.L. 96-510, 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601–9675), December 11, 1980.
2. ^ a b c d "National Priorities List". United States Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved January 17, 2011.
3. ^ "Otis Air Force Base". Retrieved 2014-10-21.
4. ^ "Fort Devens-Sudbury Training Annex". Retrieved 2009-12-04.
5. ^ "NPL Site Narrative for Fort Devens-Sudbury Training Annex". Retrieved 2009-12-04.
6. ^ "Hanscom Field/Hanscom Air Force Base". Retrieved 2009-12-04.
7. ^ "NPL Site Narrative for Hanscom Field/Hanscom Air Force Base". Retrieved 2009-12-04.
8. ^ "Materials Technology Laboratory (USARMY)". Retrieved 2009-12-04.
9. ^ "NPL Site Narrative for Materials Technology Laboratory (USARMY)". Retrieved 2009-12-04.
10. ^ "Natick Laboratory Army Research, D&E Center". Retrieved 2009-12-04.
11. ^ "NPL Site Narrative for Natick Laboratory Army Research, D&E Center". Retrieved 2009-12-04.
12. ^ "Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant". Retrieved 2009-12-04.
13. ^ "NPL Site Narrative for Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant". Retrieved 2009-12-04.
14. ^ "South Weymouth Naval Air Station". Retrieved 2009-12-04.
15. ^ "NPL Site Narrative for South Weymouth Naval Air Station". Retrieved 2009-12-04.
16. ^ "Fort Devens". Retrieved 2009-12-04.
17. ^ "NPL Site Narrative for Fort Devens". Retrieved 2009-12-04.
18. ^ "Nuclear Metals, Inc. Superfund Site".
19. ^ "Nuclear Metals, Inc. Superfund site progress profile". EPA. Archived from the original on 2011-06-16. Retrieved 2010-02-06.

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