New York City has agreed to a nearly $3-billion set of improvements to a nearby reservoir, including a cover, and to pay a $1-million fine to settle federal allegations that the city didn’t comply with Safe Drinking Water Act requirements, the Dept. of Justice says.
The agreement—spelled out in a consent decree filed on March 18 in federal district court in Brooklyn, N.Y., along with a federal lawsuit—deals with the Hillview Reservoir in Yonkers, N.Y., a short distance north of the Bronx. [View proposed consent decree here.]