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Elizabethtown Landfill

This site is currently on the EPA Superfund National Priorities List and remains under federal cleanup oversight. Most-cited contaminant of concern: 1,1-Dichloroethene.

W Ridge Rd, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania · ZIP 17022 · EPA ID PAD980539712

CLEANUP TIMELINE

Listing-date and cleanup-phase enrichment from EPA's per-site SEMS profile is queued for a follow-up ingest pass. Until then, this section will populate from EPA's published timeline data.

Anomaly engine

Notable Signals

No notable signals at this Superfund site for the current ingest. Cleanup-phase and SEMS-action flags are deferred to a follow-up engineering pass.

Contaminants of concern · per EPA SEMS

What's In This Site

Each row pairs a contaminant with the medium it was found in (the exposure pathway). Hover any named contaminant for an agency-cited health-risk summary. Cited count = number of SEMS decision records (RODs and related) that name the pair.

ContaminantPathwayCited
1,1-DichloroetheneHealth riskVinylidene chloride; IARC Group 3 (inadequate evidence in humans) but liver toxic in animal studies; common TCE/PCE biodegradation product. (IARC, EPA)Groundwater1
ArsenicHealth riskIARC Group 1 carcinogen via inhalation and ingestion. EPA MCL 10 µg/L; chronic exposure causes skin, lung, bladder cancer and cardiovascular disease. (IARC, EPA, ATSDR)Groundwater1
BenzeneHealth riskIARC Group 1 carcinogen. Long-term inhalation causes leukemia and bone-marrow disorders. (IARC, EPA)Groundwater1
Bis(2-Chloroethyl)EtherGroundwater1
ChlorobenzeneGroundwater1
Chloroethene (Vinyl Chloride)Health riskIARC Group 1 carcinogen — angiosarcoma of the liver. Final TCE/PCE biodegradation product; commonly found in groundwater plumes. EPA MCL 2 µg/L. (IARC, EPA)Groundwater1
Dichloromethane (Methylene Chloride)Health riskIARC Group 2A probable carcinogen; central-nervous-system depressant; banned for most consumer paint-stripper uses. (IARC, EPA)Groundwater1
TetrachloroetheneHealth riskPCE / 'perc'. IARC Group 2A probable carcinogen; central-nervous-system effects; common dry-cleaning solvent and DNAPL plume contaminant. EPA MCL 5 µg/L. (IARC, EPA)Groundwater1
TrichloroetheneHealth riskTCE. IARC Group 1 carcinogen — kidney cancer; suspected liver cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. EPA MCL 5 µg/L; common DNAPL groundwater plume contaminant. (IARC, EPA, ATSDR)Groundwater1
Drinking-water linkage · SDWIS

Groundwater Systems Serving Communities Within 3 Miles

The 15 systems below draw on groundwater (or mixed sources) and serve communities whose centroid sits within 3 miles of this site. Distance is to the served-city centroid — SDWIS does not expose individual wellhead locations, so this is a proximity screen, not a wellhead-impact assessment.

Water systemServesDistancePopulation servedSourceStatus
Hi View Mobile Home Park PrivateElizabethtown1.5 mi97GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Rustic Acres Mhp PrivateElizabethtown1.5 mi73GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Blair Mhp PrivateElizabethtown1.5 mi185GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Anchor Estates PrivateElizabethtown1.5 mi300GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Hi Land Mhp PrivateElizabethtown1.5 mi66GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Lakeview Mobile Home Park PrivateElizabethtown1.5 mi275GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Magic Chef Mhp PrivateElizabethtown1.5 mi32GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Masonic Homes MixedElizabethtown1.5 mi3,707GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Timber Villa PrivateElizabethtown1.5 mi140GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Penny Park PrivateElizabethtown1.5 mi51GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Holtwood Mobile Home Park PrivateElizabethtown1.5 mi196GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Lancaster Est PrivateElizabethtown1.5 mi304GROUNDWATER1 HEALTH-BASED · 5YR
Ridgeview Mhp & Apts PrivateElizabethtown1.5 mi30GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Laurelwood Mhp PrivateElizabethtown1.5 mi35GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Collinsville Mhp PrivateElizabethtown1.5 mi28GROUNDWATERIn compliance

Methodology: served-city centroid (TIGER 2020) is used as the PWS coordinate. Source-water classification from SDWIS primary_source_code; only groundwater and mixed-source systems are queried. Click any system above for its full SDWIS profile.

Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics

Who Lives Near This Site

Within 1 mile of this site (2 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 3,305. Why we surface this →

POPULATION SHARE
18.5%

Low-income

POPULATION SHARE
9.3%

People of color

POPULATION SHARE
6.0%

Under age 5

POPULATION SHARE
26.0%

Over age 64

Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics, population-weighted across the 1-mile buffer around this site (from USEPA-clone/EJAM-open blockgroupstats). NPL site proximity contributes to the national EJ pattern; indicator-level percentile and disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page.

Source. EPA Superfund Enterprise Management System (SEMS) · retrieved 2026-05-07. SEMS is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.

What this is not. We report EPA's published Superfund record — site listing, status, and contaminants of concern as named in EPA's decision documents. We do not perform site visits, independent air or water sampling, or current-state health-risk assessment. NPL listing reflects EPA's Hazard Ranking Score at a point in time; it does not by itself describe present-day exposure.