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Posted on 09/12/2026 8:48:34 AM PDT by Libloather
Fishing and boating on a Staten Island lake that was polluted by human waste has finally been closed by authorities, one week after The Post reported that officials had done nothing about the “open secret” for decades.
The Parks Department told The Post in a statement Friday evening that “out of an abundance of caution, fishing and boating will be suspended in Clove Lakes Park while we await water testing results.”
The Post spoke to boat rental workers earlier in the day who said that boat rentals had been open all week.
The workers informed The Post that parkgoers continued to boat on the sewage-polluted lake, but that sales dropped following last week’s revelations about the crappy calamity.
“Hopefully sales will go back up next summer when they fix the pollution,” the staffer said.
Ahead of the closure, authorities were scrambling to fix the situation.
The Stone House at Clove Lakes Park erected PVC pipes to reroute their sewer line away from the lake and directly into a Parks Department manhole instead, The Post confirmed.
“The restaurant has been all over it,” a source said.
The restaurant also added outdoor trailer bathrooms that do not connect to the sewer line, The Post observed.
“So many people are horrified and glad it’s being addressed,” a Staten Island parkgoer said.
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For us oldies ...recall this classic:
I was swimming on my side....and my back..but just couldn't get to sleep
And the last mile was on land.
lawyers are lining up with $$ signs in their eye$- 20 year ‘open secret’ that endangered people? Kaching!
George Carlin has a funny one on his immune system and swimming as a kid in the polluted East River in NY ;-)
Cue Caddyshack. “Doodoo!”
Good, they don't mention a ban on swimming, and now swimmers won't have to worry about the boats.
I do feel sorry for the boaters, however. Where else are they going to be able to find water around Staten ISLAND.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Txhh4J4f4oc&pp=ygUbZ2VvcmdlIGNhcmxpbiBpbW11bmUgc3lzdGVt
George Carlin on germs.
About half of NYC could be deported and half of the remainder could just go straight to prison. Problem solved.
Must be from all those bodies they dumped.
New Yorkers have to be told not to swim and fish in sewage??? Ohhhkayyy. That explains quite a bit.
Pollution - Tom Lehrer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-1_32xKOxY
New York City is the solution, not the problem. It ceased functioning as a city a long time ago. The problem was what to do with criminals and the insane. Add illegal aliens to run it since citizens with options fled and won't return.
New York City is an open-air urban reservation / prison / insane asylum staffed by illegal aliens.
For more than a century the “upper crust” in cities such as New York and Chicago looked down their nose at those who lived in rural and even suburban areas, all while ignoring those cities fester in their own fecal waste.
I’ll bet the fish taste yummy.
Just send me to hell or New York City
It would be about the same to me
— Bocephus
Exactly.
True.
Sounds like what NYC really is:
A sewer populated by liberal excrement
Cap it off
Pronto.
Don’t eat the crapy crappies
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