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Norfolk city, VA

The federal environmental record for Norfolk city (population 230,930): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.

1

Superfund NPL sites

3

federal cleanup sites

0

PFAS-detecting water systems

0

TRI facilities

4

open tank releases

Superfund NPL sites

SiteCityStatusListed
Norfolk Naval Base (Sewells Point Naval Complex)Norfolkon the NPL04/01/1997

Drinking water: PFAS testing

No public water system serving Norfolk reported a PFAS detection in the UCMR5 national testing round. Systems serving under 3,300 people were only sampled in part, so absence from this table is not proof of absence in the water.

Underground fuel tanks

EPA's UST Finder records 710 tank facilities in Norfolk: 327 tanks in service and 1,766 closed. 456 fuel releases are on record, of which 4 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".

Radon

EPA maps Norfolk as Zone 3, the lowest predicted indoor radon (under 2 pCi/L average). Radon and air quality are covered in depth on lung.com.

The record for one specific address

County figures blur what matters: distance. The Address Environmental Report runs these same federal datasets against one address and reports every site, tank, polluter and water result around it, with distances, in about a minute.

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All federal cleanup sites on file

The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Norfolk, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.

  • ATLANTIC CREOSOTING AND WOOD PRESERVING WORKSNORFOLK
  • NORFOLK NAVAL BASE (SEWELLS POINT NAVAL COMPLEX)NORFOLK
  • REPUBLIC CREOSOTING COCHESAPEAKE