Comparables:
Superfund Sites

Key Philadelphia Superfund Sites

 

• Metal Bank (Cottman and Delaware Avenues): A former scrap metal and oil-reclaiming facility at 7301 Milnor Street along the Delaware River, contaminated with PCBs and transformer oil. 

• Franklin Slag Pile (Port Richmond): An industrial waste site in Northeast Philadelphia contaminated by decades of copper smelting and heavy metals, facing ongoing remediation and climate vulnerability challenges. 

• Enterprise Avenue Landfill: A 57-acre site used in the 1970s for ash, incineration residue, and illegally buried chemical drums; it was capped and deleted from the active NPL list in 1986, with long-term groundwater monitoring still active.

• Lower Darby Creek Area: Encompassing landfills like Clearview near 84th and Lindbergh Boulevard, overlapping parts of Philadelphia and Delaware counties with ongoing federal cleanup actions.