New York state is agreeing to close 54 large-capacity cesspools that have continued to operate at state parks but should have been taken out of service by April 2005 under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
The U.S. Department of Justice said that under a consent judgment filed Dec. 20 in federal court in Brooklyn, the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and the Palisades Interstate Park Commission will close the cesspools by July 2019.
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