From The Brooklyn Paper:
Boating on Newtown Creek is safe, but be careful around the seafood and don’t take a dip, a new state study concluded.
Kayaking in the putrid Greenpoint waterway is not dangerous as long as paddlers avoid drinking or touching the water and do not schedule boat outings after big rainstorms, when raw sewage floods the creek, according to state health and environmental officials analyzed water and sediment samples along the 3.8-mile waterway.
“Because people do not usually submerge their heads in the water during these activities, the presumed volume of incidental water consumption is lower than swimming, and subsequently, the risk of illness can also be assumed to be lower,” the researchers said.
Brooklynites should be wary about eating anything they catch in Newtown Creek because of high bacteria levels, said state scientists, who recommended that women under age 50 and children under age 15 refrain from consuming any fish caught in the waterway. Men over age 15 and women over age 50 should limit their intake of North Brooklyn seafood at one meal of bluefish, carp, and bass per month, and no more than six crabs per week, the study said.
Is it just me, or does this sound totally ridiculous? You may not submerge your head in the water when you kayak, but you are breathing in toxic fumes coming off the water. It's a friggin' Superfund site, for God's sake! And how can they suggest anyone "limit" the amount of Newtown Creek seafood they consume? Keeping anything caught in the Creek should be against the law, period. Prediction: Many lawsuits in about 10 years when kayakers and fishermen are suffering from cancer.
14 comments:
Yo....bro....
make sure that you're wearing haz-mat protection garb.
Don't fall into the water without one.
Stupid is as stupid does!
When I used to watch Planet of the Apes as a kid, I used to wonder how such an advanced and civilized society could possibly devolve into dumb, mute, beasts. Now, watching it happening right in front of me, all I can say now is, seeing is believing.
Those have to be doctored pictures of folks on Newtown Creek.
So, The Stavisky's swin in Beechurst.
I been in there with a kayak and 12 volt trolling motor. It didnt smell and was actually really interesting. Lots of small silver fish that swim in packs. I found a blue 1940s s coke bottle.
It gets real ugly and nasty at the far side by Bohack square
Only a hipster moron from some flyover state would be stupid enough to do this. Let them!
"I been in there with a kayak and 12 volt trolling motor. It didnt smell and was actually really interesting."
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Aren't YOU special?
Wouldn't be surprised if you glow in the dark.
People who go into the creek for recreation should be arrested in order to protect us from them!
How about the millions of dollars wasted on groups like the Newtown Creek Alliance as they try to get the creek ready for development - as they look at growing mushrooms in floating tires to clean the creek and talk about hanging gardens under the expresway watered by run off.
I kid you not.
Meanwhile places that really need money go starving.
Again-- what's your point? You want the Nanny State to tell these morons not to go in there? I vote let them do what they want. I'm sick and tired of the Nanny State up my ass.
The creek has been severely polluted for over 150 years.
What the canoers and Kayakers don't see is the night time release of pollutants.
Anyone see Blinky, the three-eyed fish from the Simpsons there?
This can't be good. You could fall sick!
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