List of Superfund sites in Nevada


This is a list of Superfund sites in Nevada designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. These locations are known as Superfund sites, and are placed on the National Priorities List.
The NPL guides the EPA in "determining which sites warrant further investigation" for environmental remediation. As of November 29, 2010, there was one Superfund site on the National Priorities List in Nevada, with no further sites proposed for addition. No site has yet been removed from the list.

Superfund sites

CERCLIS IDNameCountyReasonProposedListedConstruction
completed		Partially
deleted		Deleted
NVD980813646Carson River Mercury SiteLyon, Storey, and ChurchillSurface water, sediment, soil, fish and wildlife contamination by mercury from historical gold and silver mining operations.10/26/198908/30/1990---
NVD083917252Anaconda MineLyongroundwater and surface water contamination by a wide range of heavy metals, radioisotopes, chlorides, sulfates and acidic conditions. Fugitive dust from contaminated mine tailings is also a threat.-----
NV3141190030Rio Tinto Copper MineElkocopper, iron, manganese, zinc.-----