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Mosquito crisis
in Marine Park
BY COLIN MIXSON
As city health inspectors uncover
evidence of mosquitoes carrying the
West Nile Virus in Brooklyn, locals
claim that Parks Department offi cials
have allowed the borough’s biggest
green space to devolve into a breeding
ground for the noxious pests, which
spawn in standing pools of water that
agency honchos claim are too expensive
to fi x.
“It’s disgusting,” said Elizabeth
Morrissey, a Stuart Street resident
living across the street from Marine
Park. “My dog was attacked by mosquitoes
yesterday — attacked!”
Morrissey complained of two large
ponds in particular, both located
within the northwestern corner of Marine
Park near the local middle school,
IS 278. One is a shallow pit at the playground
bordering Fillmore Avenue,
where rainwater collects in a stagnant
pool, inevitably becoming fi lthy with
trash, and infested with swarms of
hungry mosquitoes, she said.
“Kids are walking through it.
There’s garbage in it. It’s not right!”
said Morrissey.
The other pool is located near a
baseball diamond on the other side of
Marine Park’s oval cycling and running
path, and is produced by a constantly
leaking water fountain that’s
inundated the nearby bike lane, along
with complicating the task of getting
a drink of water, according to another
longtime local.
“You can’t even use the fountain,
because you’d be standing in a puddle,”
said Stan Kaplan, a member of the Marine
Park Civic Association, as well as
various other local civic groups.
Morrissey and Kaplan raised the
perennial ponding issue following
a July 24 Department of Health announcement
that agents had detected
mosquitoes carrying the West Nile Virus
— a potentially fatal disease that
causes infl ammation of the brain and
spinal cord — in nearby East New
York, along with several other outer
borough neighborhoods.
In a bid to control the spread of the
disease, the Health Department has
sprayed Marine Park with larvicide
— a pesticide that kills mosquito larvae
before they can hatch — on several
occasions between June 20 and July
19, but city Health Commissioner Dr.
Oxiris Barbot warned locals that the
best way to prevent mosquito-borne
illnesses is to eliminate standing pools
of water.
“We also encourage everyone to
remove any standing water that may
harbor mosquitoes or call 311 for
standing water they cannot manage
themselves.”
At a Marine Park community meeting
A cyclist maneuvers around a large puddle
and breeding ground for mosquitoes created
by a leaking water fountain in Marine
Park. Photo by Steve Solomonson
in April, however, Brooklyn Parks
Commissioner Martin Maher quashed
any notions that the issue would be addressed
quickly, quoting a multimillion
dollar price tag for the infrastructure
required to permanently fi x the
park’s pool problems, according to one
civic leader in attendance.
“He put the price tag at $11 million
for all new drainage, new water pipes,
all sorts of things,” said Ed Jowarski,
co-president of the Madison-Marine
Homecrest Civic Association.
Jowarksi, Morrissey, and Kaplan
all scoffed at the Parks offi cial’s eightfi
gure quote, claiming that both the
pit and the fountain pools could be addressed
by relatively cheap Band-Aid
fi xes.
In the case of the pit, Morrissey
suggested digging a dry well — a simple,
underground structure that uses
gravity and porous material to drain
water.
As to the fountain, Kaplan suggested
the simple remedy of turning
it off.
A Parks Department spokeswoman
blamed the ponding on “generous rainfall”
and drainage issues in the park,
and claimed workers have been busy
sweeping and pumping large puddles
regularly.
And the leaking water fountain
won’t be fi xed anytime soon, according
to the spokeswoman, who said it
could be weeks before a repairman is
sent out.
— Additional reporting
by Chandler Kidd
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