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Former Falk Road Landfill (Holly Township, Oakland County)
Please contact the Site Lead for the most up-to-date status of this site.
EGLE site lead
Kimberly Ethridge, EthridgeK@Michigan.gov or 586-324-0183.
Waste Disposal Questions
Please note that this landfill is CLOSED and does not accept waste.
Background
The Former Falk Road Landfill (FFRL), located at 16000 Falk Road, is a 40-acre property with two main locations where unidentified/undocumented garbage and lawn/leaf refuse was disposed from around 1927 until 1980. Part of the site was also used as a shooting range. This site has been sampled for various pollutants since 1994. PFAS was sampled by Holly Village in 2020, then by EGLE in 2021. Thirty-two samples were collected at 24 monitoring wells. Four groundwater samples had PFAS exceeding groundwater cleanup criteria.
FFRL is near the Shiawassee River. Swartz and Buckhorn Creeks are tributaries streams that flow from the north and south. There are several ponds on the FFRL and southern adjoining property. Rice Lake and Bush Lake are northwest of the FFRL. Groundwater flow is complex in this area: the deeper groundwater flow direction is generally assumed to flow to the west-northwest, but shallow groundwater flow direction may be more radial toward the south, west, and northwest. Shallow and deeper groundwater is relied upon for drinking water.
Content posted December 2021.
Drinking water
Select nearby residential wells will continue to be monitored.
Anticipated activities
EGLE will evaluate results and continue to monitor compliance activities and environmental conditions at the FFRL to protect public health and the environment. EGLE will review the October 2021 groundwater sampling report when received.
Historical timeline
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2020 and earlier
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2021