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Birds Eye in Waseca to build new waste processing lagoon that should eliminate odor in harvest season

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Source: https://www.southernminn.com/waseca_county_news/news/article_b543daf5-bb13-5b5f-ad7a-a7bf225f92b8.html The scent of vegetable processing has been known to waft through the warm autumn air around harvest time in Waseca. It’s an aroma that residents don’t find pleasant. That is soon to change. At its Tuesday meeting, the Waseca County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a permit for Birds Eye to build a new industrial waste processing facility …

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Birds Eye Foods in Waseca fined for water quality violations

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Source: https://www.southernminn.com/waseca_county_news/news/article_baf262ae-fc3f-5693-bfa1-3972ac805999.html The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has fined Birds Eye Foods in Waseca  $3,125 for violating water quality standards. The case is one of 65 in 41 counties throughout Minnesota during the fourth quarter of 2013. Penalties from all 65 cases totaled just under $630,000. Environmental enforcement investigations often take several months, and in highly complex cases more than a …