Civil Plaintiff
After 11 Years, a Sewage Treatment Plant in New York Receives a $30M Lawsuit Payment Over Wall Collapse
After 11 years of grinding through the judicial system and a flurry of court filings in August, a lawsuit connected to the catastrophic collapse of a portion of the Binghamton-Johnson City Joint Sewage Treatment Plant has finally been resolved.
Contractors have agreed to pay just over $30 million to settle the case in Broome County Supreme Court, according to documents filed by the Joint Sewage Treatment Board. The settlement avoided a trial that had been scheduled to begin this week.
The settlement is just a fraction of the $275 million spent to renovate the plant, a six-year rebuild that was completed in the summer of 2020, but not before millions of gallons of barely treated wastewater leaked into the Susquehanna River.
