List of Superfund sites in Tennessee

This is a list of Superfund sites in Tennessee 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 October 1, 2020, there were eighteen Superfund sites on the National Priorities List in Tennessee[2] and three Superfund Alternative sites.[3] Zero sites are currently proposed for entry on the list and seven others have been cleaned up and removed from it.[2]

Superfund sites

  Proposed for addition to National Priorities List
  Removed from Proposed National Priorities List
  Deleted from National Priorities List
  Superfund Alternative site
CERCLIS ID Name County Reason Proposed Listed[4] Construction
completed[5] 		Partially
deleted[6] 		Deleted[7]
TNN000410203 Alamo Contaminated Ground Water Crockett VOCs, including TCE, PCE, dichloroethene and trichloroethane have been detected in ground water in several monitoring wells and the city’s municipal wells.[8]
03/10/2011
09/16/2011
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TND007018799 American Creosote Works, (Jackson Plant) Madison Groundwater, surface water, soil and sediments were contaminated by VOCs, PAHs and heavy metals from former wood treatment operations.[9][10]
10/15/1984
06/10/1986
05/24/2000
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–
TND980729172 Amnicola Dump Hamilton Former dumping activities led to contamination by pesticides, PAHs, VOCs, heavy metals, PCBs, inorganic compounds and persistent organic pollutants, among other substances. Leachates had elevated levels of organic compounds and groundwater was contaminated by chromium, though municipal wells were unaffected.[11][12]
12/30/1982
09/08/1983
09/28/1993
–
04/30/1996
TND980468557 Arlington Blending & Packaging Shelby Operations, spills and leakage at a pesticide processing facility led to soil contamination by chlordane, heptachlor, endrin, PCP and arsenic and shallow groundwater contamination by PCP and DCE. The site has been cleaned up and is now a neighborhood park.[13][14]
07/22/1987
07/24/1997
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–
TN8570024044 Arnold Engineering Development Center (USAF) Coffee and Franklin PCBs from the site have contaminated surface water, sediments and fish off-site. is on-site contamination by PCBs, trichloroethane, methyl chloride and toluene and spills of jet fuel, rocket fuel, CFCs, nitric acid and other substances have been reported.[15][16] Site has since been removed from Proposed NPL[17]
08/23/1994
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–
–
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TND044062222 Carrier Air Conditioning Co. Shelby Two spills contaminated soil with TCE and sediments in a wastewater lagoon were contaminated by zinc and TCE. In July 1986, TCE was found in the municipal water plant, is close to the site.[18][19]
06/24/1984
02/21/1990
10/31/1995
–
–
TND987768546 Chemet Co. Fayette Unsecured slag piles from an antimony oxide plant contaminated soil, surface water and the fields of an adjacent school with lead, arsenic and antimony.[20][21]
01/18/1994
05/31/1994
05/15/1996
–
10/09/1996
TND987768587 Clinch River Corporation Roane Historical investigations at the site have revealed extensive contamination in surface and subsurface soil and shallow ground water. Contamination includes elevated concentrations of site-related hazardous substances, including dioxins, furans, PAHs, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and various metals in surface and sub-surface soil. In addition, site related contaminants have been found in sediment and fish tissue within the Emory River/Watts Barr Reservoir.[22]
09/18/2012
05/24/2013
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–
–
TN0001890839 Copper Basin Mining District Polk Acidic drainage from waste materials has caused deforestation, leading to severe erosion, and led to high levels of metals in soil, sediments and surface water. Oils containing PCBs have leaked from abandoned transformers. Abandoned mine workings and deteriorating facilities and waste piles pose significant physical hazards.[23]
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–
–
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TNN000402275 Former Custom Cleaners Shelby Soils, indoor air, and ground water have been contaminated with tetrachloroethylene (PCE). PCE has been found above the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Act Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCL) in ground water and at concentrations exceeding screening levels in indoor air and subsurface soil.[24]
09/09/2016
08/03/2017
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–
–
TND980728992 Gallaway Pits Fayette Unauthorized dumping in flooded former sand and gravel pits contaminated soil and surface water with pesticides, including chlordane and toxaphene, risking contamination of local private drinking water wells.[25][26]
12/30/1982
09/08/1983
07/18/1995
–
04/29/1996
TND987767795 ICG Iselin Railroad Yard Madison Soil and sediment contamination by lead and VOCs, including vinyl chloride and benzene.[27][28]
05/10/1993
12/16/1994
03/29/2000
–
01/07/2002
TND073540783 ICG (Johnston Yard) Shelby Soil and groundwater are contaminated by metals, petroleum products, diesel fuel, and occasional solvents and pesticides. Contamination is not at a level to threaten worker health and groundwater contamination appears localized to the site.[29]
–
–
–
–
–
TND980729115 Lewisburg Dump Marshall Concerns were groundwater contamination, leachate generation and direct exposure to dumped industrial waste due to the deteriorating landfill cap.[30][31]
12/30/1982
09/08/1983
09/28/1993
–
02/21/1996
TND075453688 Mallory Capacitor Co. Wayne Groundwater and private drinking water wells contaminated by PCBs and VOCs, including TCE and DCE.[32][33]
01/22/1987
10/04/1989
09/24/1996
–
–
TN4210020570 Memphis Defense Depot (DLA) Shelby Ground water, sediment, soil and surface water are contaminated by substances including arsenic, dieldrin, PAHs, PCBs, PCE and TCE from operations at the Depot, closed under BRAC.[34][35]
02/07/1992
10/14/1992
05/10/2010
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–
TN0210020582 Milan Army Ammunition Plant Carroll and Gibson Groundwater and soil contamination by TNT and RDX. The Memphis Sand Aquifer, supplies water to 9,000 people in Milan is contaminated.[36][37]
10/15/1984
07/22/1987
07/25/2017
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–
TND980728836 Murray-Ohio Dump Lawrence Soil and groundwater were contaminated by heavy metals, including chromium, hexavalent chromium, nickel and zinc and by VOCs including DCE, TCE and PCE from former industrial and municipal landfill operations.[38][39]
12/30/1982
09/08/1983
09/24/1998
–
–
TNSFN0407047 National Fireworks Shelby Soil is contaminated by arsenic, lead, zinc, chromium, dieldrin and PCBs and groundwater by PCE, TCE, DCE and perchlorate.[40]
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–
–
–
–
TND980558894 North Hollywood Dump Shelby Soil, groundwater, and pond sediments were contaminated with pesticides and heavy metals, including lead, copper and arsenic from former industrial waste dumping.[41][42]
12/30/1982
09/08/1983
07/01/1997
–
12/31/1997
TN1890090003 Oak Ridge Reservation (USDOE) Roane and Anderson The site consists of hundreds of contaminated areas inside and around the Reservation, including three large production facilities dating from the Manhattan Project: the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the former K-25 gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment plant and the Y-12 plant formerly enriched uranium by an electromagnetic method and now performs nuclear weapons and energy functions. Leakage from buried waste and former processing facilities has contaminated soil, groundwater, surface water and sediments with substances including base neutral acids, inorganic compounds, metals, PAHs, PCBs, pesticides, radioactive materials and VOCs. Contamination outside the Reservation is mainly of surface water and sediments.[43][44]
07/14/1989
11/21/1989
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–
–
TND096070396 Ross Metals Inc. Fayette Soil and surface water were contaminated by lead from a former secondary smelter. Groundwater lead contamination is being treated.[45][46]
12/23/1996
04/01/1997
09/16/2004
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–
TND987790300 Sixty One Industrial Shelby Former industrial activities led to groundwater contamination by vinyl chloride, TCE, PCE, antimony, arsenic, barium, iron, manganese and thallium.[47][48]
–
–
–
–
–
TNN000407378 Smalley-Piper Shelby Soil contamination by metals including chromium, copper and lead and groundwater and surface water contamination by hexavalent chromium from former tool manufacturing. Groundwater contamination has affected the Memphis Aquifer and two Collierville municipal wells have been taken out of service as a result.[49][50]
09/23/2004
04/27/2005
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–
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TND098071061 Smokey Mountain Smelters Knox The site contains an abandoned aluminum smelter and a former fertilizer manufacturing plant. Around 2,700 cubic yards of aluminum dross, contain heavy metals and water-soluble and corrosive salts such as aluminum nitride, sodium chloride and potassium chloride. There are also around 75,000 cu yd of salt cake. Groundwater is contaminated by arsenic, soils are contaminated by arsenic and PCBs and a nearby creek is contaminated by cadmium. Access to the site is unrestricted, so trespassers may come into contact with contaminants.[51]
03/04/2010
09/29/2010[52][53]
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TNN000410686 Southside Chattanooga Lead Hamilton Soil in residential and communal areas were contaminated by lead from former foundry operations.[54] Foundries gave residents spent foundry sand to use as fill material, which contained elevated amounts of lead and other heavy metals.[55]
01/18/2018
09/13/2018
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–
–
TND071516959 Tennessee Products Hamilton Soil, groundwater, surface water and sediment, including the Chattanooga Creek are contaminated by pesticides, VOCs, PAHs, metals and PCBs from uncontrolled coal tar dumping.[56][57]
01/18/1994
09/29/1995
09/26/2008
–
08/16/2019
TND980559033 Velsicol Chemical Corp (Hardeman County) Hardeman Approximately 130,000 drums of waste from the company's Memphis pesticide plant were dumped on site, contaminating soil and groundwater with base neutral acids, pesticides, PAHs and VOCs. Contamination was found in private drinking water wells in 1979.[58][59]
12/30/1982
09/08/1983
08/13/1998
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–
TNN000410124 Walker Machine Products, Inc. Shelby Walker Machine Products used chlorinated solvents, including tetrachloroethene (PCE) and 1,1,1-trichloroethane (TCA), to clean the finished products. A 1987 Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Inspection Report stated the company was draining spent solvent onto the ground and into the sewer drain in the rear of the building. An oil/water separator was used by Walker Machine Products which handled solvent waste. The primary source of soil and ground water contamination is found in the area of the oil/water separator.[60]
12/12/2013
05/12/2014
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–
–
TND980844781 Wrigley Charcoal Plant Hickman Soil and groundwater are contaminated by wood tar chemicals, metals and VOCs from past industrial operations.[61][62]
06/24/1988
03/31/1989
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–
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See also

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