City Hall giveth and City Hall taketh away.

That’s the lesson South Bronx residents are learning upon hearing of the plan to create 13-story eyesores that would cast a shadow on their new park. The plan is part of the renovation of a water treatment center.

Less than a year after a lush new water front park opened in the Hunts Point Industrial Park, the Department of Environmental Protections (DEP) officials have unveiled plans to construct massive egg-shaped waste digesters next to Barretto Point Park. The 13-story facility will tower over the park creating giant shadows and cutting the view of greenery.

“They will replace eight smaller digesters with two monster digesters 13-stories high,” said John Robert, district manager of Community Board 2. “We didn’t know it would be literally right next door.”

Although it will not block the view of the Manhattan skyline, residents said the digesters will be an eyesore and will cast a massive shadow over the park for four hours a day during the summer.

Barretto Point Park opened on October 2nd 2006, at the end of the Hunts Point Industrial Park. The goal was to take advantage of the waterfront and bring greenery to the heavy industrial area, which has seen a boom in housing over the past decade.

Although residents do not have issue with the plant or the work being performed there, they object to the proposed location for these massive digesters.

“Why do they have to build it next to this park that they gave us?” asked Christian Roman, a member of Mothers on the Move, a group of parents and community residents who work to prevent racism and neglect in local communities and schools.

The digesters will replace the smaller aging ones at the Hunts Point Water Pollution Control Center to clean the sludge.