{"id":9405,"date":"2010-03-19T08:15:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T13:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9405"},"modified":"2010-03-19T09:19:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T14:19:58","slug":"st-paul-sports-fields-closed-due-to-hazards-startribune-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9405","title":{"rendered":"It’s Probably Not From All The Drive-By Shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"

The story isn’t all that unusual; Saint Paul has closed the outdoor rec fields at the Jimmy Lee Rec Center<\/a> due to high lead levels in the soil.<\/p>\n

Portions of the lower fields at the Jimmy Lee Recreation Center have unhealthy levels of lead, arsenic, mercury and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, according to soil test results. Lead is the greatest concern at this point, although officials don’t know the full extent of the pollution. A fence was to be put up on the perimeter of the 6-acre space Friday.<\/p>\n

“It’s clear we need to limit access,” said Parks and Recreation Director Mike Hahm. He wouldn’t speculate as to what might happen in the future, saying test results will determine the next steps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jimmy Lee is on the north end of Frogtown and on the south end of the district of warehouses and light industrial plants that abut the rail yards.\u00a0 It’s not unusual for soil to come up with high levels of all kinds of things in that area:<\/p>\n

Officials estimate about 25,000 people use the fields for baseball, football and soccer each year. Baseball Hall of Famer Dave Winfield and Twins All-Star Joe Mauer played there as youngsters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also Bun and Zam.<\/p>\n

But this piece isn’t so much about the lead levels.\u00a0 It’s about asking everyone to keep an eye out for the first leftyblogger or media figure to blame this on unallotment.<\/p>\n

Let me know, will ya?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The story isn’t all that unusual; Saint Paul has closed the outdoor rec fields at the Jimmy Lee Rec Center due to high lead levels in the soil. Portions of the lower fields at the Jimmy Lee Recreation Center have unhealthy levels of lead, arsenic, mercury and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, according to soil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9410,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions\/9410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}