There’s something fishy on this Latest Jersey town.
Residents of Osborn Island in Little Egg Harbor have been forced to stay inside their homes because the pungent smell of rotting fish overwhelms the town.
Hundreds of dead fish are floating up right into a lagoon in the world. Locals are unable to see the water because there are such a lot of of the stinking carcasses there.
“It’s disgusting, it’s the worst smell in my entire life. It even goes contained in the house. I burned every candle I could possibly find and now I’m in my infusers,” Debbie Wuss, who lives near the lagoon, told CBS News.
“Well, should you were ever on the Fulton Fish Market in Manhattan, it’s probably about 10 times worse,” Joseph DiGrande told FOX 29 Philadelphia.
The Latest Jersey Department of Environmental Protection told CBS News that the agency “is aware of the fish mortality” and “determined that poor water quality resulting from warmer temperatures and low dissolved oxygen within the lagoon” caused the wave of deaths.
Health officials warn against swimming within the infested waters.
The agency claimed “that this was an isolated event, and many of the dead fish will naturally be faraway from the lagoon by the tides, or by tide flow,” but residents say it’s turn out to be an ongoing issue.
DiGrande moved to the beach town in 2019 and said that the rotten situation has been happening two to 3 times a 12 months for 3 years now.
“Here we go again. We wait all summer to enjoy our home on the water, and also you’re literally locked in the home for 2 weeks,” DiGrande said.
“It’s definitely unhealthy. You may’t go outside. You may’t breathe. You actually can’t stay outside greater than 10 minutes.”
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The dead fish are also attracting large flocks of seagulls which can be wreaking havoc and leaking waste throughout the town.
“It’s uncomfortable. You don’t actually need to spend time outside. People normally are coming down here for the summers they usually’re swimming, but you may’t try this straight away,” Fin Handel said to CBS News.
And unfortunately for those in Latest Jersey, Osborn Island isn’t the one town with disgusting conditions ruining their summer.
High levels of fecal bacteria were recently present in the water at Beachwood Beach West within the Jersey Shore borough of Beachwood, leading officials to ban swimming for the remaining of the summer.
The Ocean County beach had 4 straight weeks of high fecal bacteria readings by the Ocean County Health Department leading as much as the closure.
“At any time when we get heavy rain, between like spring and summer, it just finally ends up having more of the deposit from the goose poop, which causes the pH of the water to go pretty high,” Beachwood resident Paul Allocco told News12 Latest Jersey.
