cleanup · Genesee County
Oak Orchard Pesticide Storage Facility
Oakfield
A completed cleanup record for a former state pesticide-storage building inside a much larger wildlife-management landscape, with lindane documented in facility debris.
The documented story
What happened here?
The Oak Orchard Pesticide Storage Facility was a state-operated building along Albion Road within the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. Its setting makes the boundary unusually important: a small regulated facility record sits inside a roughly 2,500-acre wetland, grassland, and forest complex.
New York's remediation inventory identifies lindane and pesticide-contaminated demolition debris. The available online summary supports a facility cleanup story, but it does not support describing the entire wildlife management area as contaminated.
Chronology in context
Turning points in the public record
Before 1990
State pesticide storage and affected building material prompted environmental investigation at the Albion Road facility.
1990
A remedial investigation milestone was recorded for the facility.
1992
Remedial design and action milestones were completed.
Present
The state remediation inventory lists the project as completed while the surrounding wildlife management area remains open for habitat and recreation.
Environmental record
Documented impacts
- Lindane is the specifically identified hazardous pesticide waste in the remediation record.
- The record describes pesticide-contaminated demolition debris associated with the former facility.
- No reviewed source supports shading the entire Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area as the cleanup site.
- Modern pesticide practices discussed in the habitat-management plan are not evidence of the historical lindane release and should remain a separate subject.
Response
Cleanup and controls
- Investigation defined the affected facility material and supported remedial design.
- Remedial action addressed the contaminated debris and facility conditions.
- A closeout report or archived project file is still needed before publishing removal quantities or a more precise cleanup footprint.
Then and now
The site today
The remediation program is listed completed.