July 12, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster

A stunning report out from Eagan, MN that indicates a facility there spilled harmful amounts of lead into the air earlier this year, affecting many homes and nearby HOAs in the area.   From Channel 5 KSTP:

The [Minnesota Pollution Control Agency] says higher-than-acceptable readings of lead were detected in the air, within a three-quarter mile radius of the facility, at Dodd and Yankee Doodle Roads in January, February and March — and that 700 people are possibly affected.

At issue is the Gopher One Recycling Plant located along Yankee Doodle Road in Eagan, MN. The public was not informed on a timely basis, and the state claims it knew nothing about it either. Notices about the event, that apparently took place as early as January, were sent out just recently.

Again from Channel 5:

Tabitha Booker, who’s lived in the neighborhood for 12 years, says she wishes she had been notified about these developments sooner. “Probably the first thing you should’ve done is let people know right away,” she says. “I guess it bothered me a little because when I was a kid, I was exposed to lead, and hearing about this, I was like, ‘Oh great, that’s not good.’”

No amount of lead in the human body is good. And what we don’t know is how much drift from air currents there was,  nor are we told the duration of lead in the air to determine how far the radius of the contamination really was.

I suspect we haven’t heard the last of this one.  See Channel 5’s reporting HERE.