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Four businesses, including a mammoth movie theater, were charged with illegally dumping raw sewage into a Brooklyn waterway after neighbors complained of “noxious, unbearable odors,” the district attorney announced yesterday.

The UA Sheepshead Bay theater, TGI Friday’s, Knapp Street Bagels and the Deauville Marina released untreated sewage containing grease, toilet paper and feces into Shell Bank Creek, which flows into Jamaica Bay and eventually the Atlantic Ocean, DA Charles Hynes said.

The area is not served by city sewer lines and the businesses failed to repair private wastewater lines despite warnings from city officials, Hynes said.

Deauville Marina maintained an outhouse that dumped directly into the creek, Hynes said.

The bagel shop and TGI Friday’s also dumped untreated waste grease and oil into the waterway, the DA said.

The companies had no comment or did not return calls yesterday.

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