More than half of New York beaches are contaminated by poop and sewage, according to a shocking report by Environment America.

The group found 57% the 344 state beaches it tested in 2022 had at least one day where “fecal contamination” reached potentially unsafe levels, surpassing the Environmental Protection Agency’s benchmark for beach advisories and closures.

The pollution on Empire State coasts is from human and animal waste dumped into the ocean from sewage overflows, factory farms and industrial livestock operations, the environmental organization explained.

Figures released by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which tests the waters and issues advisories, showed only one public beach in the city had been closed in 2022 due to bad water quality.

Wolfe’s Pond Park on Staten Island was closed on six days due to the water being unsafe for humans to swim in and on a further 43 days warnings were issued for “Enterococci Exceedance” — which meant unsafe levels of bacteria being recorded in the local sea waters.

Manhattan Beach in Brooklyn was also issued warnings on 20 days when the bacteria levels were too high, Orchard Beach in The Bronx displayed warnings on nine while Midland Beach and Cedar Grove Beach, both on Staten Island, had warnings on two days.

Coney Island in Brooklyn, Rockaway Beach in Queens and South Beach on Staten Island all remained free from water advisories for unsafe levels of bacteria throughout 2022.

Elsewhere in the state, Environment America’s report found Lake Erie’s Ontario Beach in Northern New York’s Monroe County would not pass the EPA’s standards on 30 days when it was tested.

Olcott Beach in Niagara County, had 15 potentially unsafe days in 2022, according to Environment America. More recent testing by county health officials showed the water was “not suitable for swimming because of unsatisfactory bacteriological water quality,” and as of July 5 it has been closed until further notice.

Also upstate, Tanner Park in Suffolk County on Long Island had 24 days the environmental organization deemed unsafe and Woodlawn Beach State Park in Erie County had 23.

Harbor Island Beach in WestChester County and the private beach of the Douglaston Homeowner’s Association each had 13 days where their waters had potenitally dangerous levels of contamination.

The environmental group’s research made a point of noting most of the contaminations it had recorded were in the form of feces from sewers and private septic tanks — used by one in four Americans — and animal waste from industrial farms which gets washed into the seas.

The report found 55% of more than 3,100 beaches it tested nationwide in 2022 had at least one day where “fecal contamination” reached potentially unsafe levels.

As a region, the Gulf of Mexico, stretching from East Texas over to Florida tested the worst, with 84% of shorelines which were tested failing to meet clean standards.

That was followed by the West Coast, where 70% of the beaches were unclean and then the Great Lakes region with 63%.

Swimming in water contaminated by sewage can cause “respiratory disease, ear and eye infection, and skin rash,” the group warned, noting there are some 57 millions of cases of water-borne illnesses reported in the US every year.

“People can also develop gastrointestinal illnesses, including hepatitis A and norovirus, after eating shellfish that were harvested from polluted waters,” Kelly Johnson-Arbor, medical toxicologist at the National Capital Poison Control Center, told Fox News.

A lot of the problem comes from the country’s aging sewage works.

“Unfortunately, sewage infrastructure around the country is inadequate or in poor repair, enabling raw sewage to find its way into our waterways,” the report reads.

“Sanitary sewers overflow as many as 75,000 times each year in the US.”

Urban sprawl, such a new construction, paving roads and parking lots, aren’t helping either.

“Paving over wetlands or forests that had once absorbed rainfall and filtered pollution makes this problem worse.”

Beach-goers should check beach advisories and avoid going in the water if they have open sores, said Environment America.

Updating the country’s aging sewage system is one way to lessen the problem. Although Congress has committed over $25 billion to sewage and stormwater projects since 2021, the EPA says estimates it would cost closer to $271 billion to fix wastewater infrastructure across the country.