NYC eatery spews raw sewage into park’s fishing, boating lake — and officials don’t care: whistleblower

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 Lake 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…

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