EXCLUSIVE: Backed-up Bay 8th Street bathroom mains were freely flowing
It’s a sewage screw-up.
The bathrooms at Bay 8th Street playground have been out of service for a year and a half, not because of a broken water main as previously thought, but because the sewer mains running out of the park are not connected to the existing sewer mains on Bay 8th Street and Cropsey Avenue.
“Parks contractors are working at this site and we’re coordinating with the Department of Environmental Protection to connect to their existing sewer main,” said Phil Abramson, a spokesperson for the Parks Department. “It is our hope to expedite this work so that the comfort station can once again be fully functional.”