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Staten Island migrant shelter suffering a sewage crisis that stinks up the neighborhood as residents complain the building was never suitable to house people - 'It's disgusting and nobody should be subject to that'
Daily Mail ^ | 9/09/23 | Ishita Srivastava

Posted on 09/09/2023 3:03:31 PM PDT by Libloather

The migrant crisis worsens in New York City as a Staten Island shelter continues to cause hygiene issues in the area.

School turned controversial shelter, St. John Villa Academy is currently housing nearly 300 migrants, something it was never built to do.

The 67-year-old building is currently acting as full-time residence and bathroom for the migrants in the area. Due to the age and purpose of the building, it was never meant for 24/7 use, and the ejector pumps are incapable of moving huge quantities of raw sewage into the city's sewers.

To address the issue, a septic-treatment company visits the location multiple times a day to pump the raw sewage into a concrete pit, which usually takes 15 minutes and takes it away. During this time, the abhorrent smell plagues the neighborhood.

Scott Herkert who lives adjacent to the shelter told DailyMail.com: 'So directly connecting to my property is the school and along the fence that's connecting, they have their showers which I'm sorry, shower slash bathrooms.

'At least once a day they're coming in and they're pumping these out and when they do pump it out, it smells, it smells like what you would expect it to smell. They're pumping out a bathroom and the f*** out of here and shit.'

He says that the street is closed off and will remain so until the issue is resolved.

Herkert further criticizes the government and says that they are lying and handling the situation terribly.

'You're lying to the people, you're lying to the people about the border crisis, you're lying to the people in the cities and the communities had we not exposed this,' he tells DailyMail.com

Herkert also claimed that while the school in the area and the Church have asked people to be compassionate towards...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Food; Local News
KEYWORDS: nyc; residents; sewage; stinks
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To: Libloather

Staten Island, the San Francisco of the East Coast


21 posted on 09/09/2023 3:37:01 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Leaning Right

“Super Duper Pooper Scooper Sanctuary City.”

Fixed if for ya. ;)


22 posted on 09/09/2023 3:37:51 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Libloather

I feel sorry for them, but it’s such a tiny amount compared to what the border states have put up with for years.

The thing is, a lot of them voted for this


23 posted on 09/09/2023 3:38:20 PM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore………)
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To: Libloather
"It's disgusting"...... Biden is DISGUSTING!!
24 posted on 09/09/2023 3:38:40 PM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: Libloather

Gee… That’s a shame.

Keep voting for Democrats. You wanted it… You got it.


25 posted on 09/09/2023 3:42:05 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: McGavin999
The thing is, a lot of them voted for this

Trump won Staten Island by 15 points.

26 posted on 09/09/2023 3:47:46 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Yay. A fellow connoisseur of classic cinema. Casablanca, move over.


27 posted on 09/09/2023 3:48:55 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Libloather

Double, hell Triple the number staying there, put up tents everywhere


28 posted on 09/09/2023 3:53:00 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: FreeReign

I didn’t know that, then that explains why the mayor is doing that. I hope they load the migrants back and send them back to the mayors house.


29 posted on 09/09/2023 4:14:07 PM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore………)
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To: fhayek
South of the border, open sewers is what they like. They are used to open sewers and immune to them. Open sewers and muds.

30 posted on 09/09/2023 4:20:15 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: Libloather

Well, when you vote for shit you get more of it. Enjoy your neighborhoods, stupid voters! You asked for it!


31 posted on 09/09/2023 4:23:18 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: Libloather

Turd worlders gonna turd.


32 posted on 09/09/2023 4:28:11 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Libloather

New Yorkers bitching about illegal alien migrants is a start.


33 posted on 09/09/2023 4:44:01 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Sufferings are the guardrails on the road to Heaven.)
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To: Libloather
Our cities are turning medieval. How is this any different from hollering “Gardy-loo!” as you toss the contents of chamber pots from the upper stories onto the street below? We can all look forward to the coming cholera and typhoid outbreaks.

Why is no one taking these cities to court like Phoenix did?

34 posted on 09/09/2023 5:21:29 PM PDT by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Many of them probably didn’t have flush toilets. Mexican sewage systems are such that it’s common to throw used TP in the trash. I remember someone complaining about a Mexican coworker doing that. California, I believe. And, of course, the complaining party was fired.


35 posted on 09/09/2023 6:35:21 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Libloather

Staten Island is the Republican part of NYC. It voted big for Trump.

That is why they are sending the illegals there.


36 posted on 09/09/2023 7:55:49 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant
2020 presidential election results in NYC. The mostly red island at the bottom is Staten Island.


37 posted on 09/09/2023 7:59:22 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: frank ballenger

I’m catching up! There were a lot of fun movies I missed from 1979-1993 when I was in the Army. All we were ever given to watch were Personal Hygiene films, LOL!


38 posted on 09/10/2023 5:52:56 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Well they got what they voted for enjoy.


39 posted on 09/10/2023 8:56:16 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

You came to the right place. Free Republic has the most sophisticated cinema critics and experts in the land. Our favorites didn’t make it to the Oscar night galas but are all popcorn worthy classics nonetheless.


40 posted on 09/10/2023 11:00:18 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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