Syracuse.com - Oneida Lake camp owner fed up with 'slobs' on the water

[HuntingNY-News]

<p>

He's seeing all sorts of garbage wash up on his shore. "We're seeing empty, plastic soda bottles and beer cans; kids toys that look like they fell off or were thrown off some party boat; sealed milk jugs or Clorox plastic bottles filled with urine," he said.

</p>

<p>Bill Crofton is tired of the slobs on Oneida Lake.</p>

<p>Crofton, 79, and his wife, Peggy, summer each year at a camp on Kyser Beach, where they have 100 feet of lake frontage. He called me early this week, asking for my help.</p>

<p>Every year, he said, garbage from the lake washes up on their shoreline. Crofton said he and a neighbor were talking recently about how the amount of trash has gotten worse in recent years.</p>

<p>“We’re seeing empty, plastic soda bottles and beer cans; kids toys that look like they fell off or were thrown off some party boat; sealed milk jugs or Clorox plastic bottles filled with urine,” he said.</p>

<p>He also said he’s come across nearly a dozen hypodermic needles the past several years.</p>

<p>Crofton said if he had the chance to talk to the people who are doing this, “I’d ask them in a very nice way to stop throwing these things in the lake, and to just wait until they get to shore to deposit them in a trash can. Otherwise, we end up picking it up.”</p>

<p>He’s a lot nicer than I would be.<br /></p>

View the full article on The Syracuse Outdoors Blog