Illegal Dumping in Prospect Park Lake

Just two weeks ago, a large amount of butcher’s waste, which included entrails of pigs, mutilated chicken parts, was dumped on the banks as well inside the Prospect Park Lake of Brooklyn. The Prospect Park Alliance said initially that it might have been leftovers from a Santeria ritual but they soon changed that to admit that it was due to illegal dumping.

Although the city’s Park Department had claimed success in cleaning up the lake, the re-occurrence of the waste belies their claims. A spokesperson for the Park Alliance said that they had tried their best although they had insufficient equipment to handle the situation.

Wildlife lovers protested against the inefficiency of the city’s park department officials and have alleged that the death of John Boy who was one of the most popular and loved swans living in the lake was due to the foul conditions created by the dumping of dismembered animal parts.

Ms. Titze who visits the lake regularly said that she had found many animals dead in a particular section of the lake and the deaths were in a period of 4 days.

The city’s Department of Environmental Protection stated in their defense that death was a part and parcel at the lake and that the test to check whether there was any contamination present in the lake had turned out to be negative. Due to the negative public response at the findings, the officials have stated that any more deaths will be investigated more thoroughly and the corpses will be tested for poisoning.

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