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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
Elizabeth Morrissey points out a massive puddle and breeding
ground for mosquitoes near IS 278 in Marine Park.
Photo by Steve Solomonson
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 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, copresident
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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