They’re up s–ts creek, but they still have paddles.
Staten Island parkgoers have been fishing and boating in a lake polluted with human feces from a restaurant’s broken sewer line for over 20 years, and the eatery’s owner and park officials have done nothing about it, a whistleblower told The Post.
A sewer leading from The Stone House, a luxe wedding venue and steakhouse at Clove Lakes Park, is badly damaged at multiple points and has been contaminating Clove Lake, a dye test performed by the city Department of Environmental Protection Tuesday revealed.
A spokesperson for the state Department of Environmental Conservation confirmed to The Post the agency is investigating “a potential sewage discharge into Clove Lakes Park.” The agency doesn’t comment on pending investigations, the spokesperson added.
The DEP said that the lake’s management falls under the jurisdiction of the city Parks Department and the pollution problem is now a state issue.
The test Tuesday involved pouring glowing green chemical dye down the restaurant’s toilets, and red dye in the sewer main across the lake that connects to the restaurant’s sewer line.
Both the red and green dye emerged inside the lake, indicating that the sewer was likely collapsed at multiple points, said the well-placed whistleblower.
The DEC nor the DEP provided test results for fecal coliform in the lake, and it is unclear if the lake has even been tested for bacteria related to human waste. The DEC water quality portal provides...
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