Conagra Lagoon

Conagra Fined for Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) Pollution at Levels Exceeding Legal Exposure Limits On More Than 2,500 Occasions Between 2020 and 2022 at its Fruit and Vegetable Processing Facility in Waseca, Minn.

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After years of community complaints, and enduring a nauseating stench MPCA installed Hydrogen Sulfide monitors at the Birds Eye / Conagra waste lagoon. After a brief period of monitoring hydrogen sulfide levels exceeding legal limits were detected “more than 2500 times”. Conagra has been fined $1,250,000 for polluting Waseca, MN over 2500 times. How much more than 2500 times? This …