GOSHEN – The State Department of Environmental Conservation fined Legoland New York in the Town of Goshen $238,000 for repeated violations of state environmental law through the unpermitted discharge of turbid water from its site to the Otter Kill.
Attorney Michael Sussman conveyed the news of the fine.
Legoland promised to properly implement erosion control measures in September 2018, but discharged on 20 separate occasions between September 2018 and April 2019.
Sussman called the fine “a pittance, a business expense that Legoland will write off.” But he said the damage to the local ecology “is incalculable and the attitude its cavalier corporate leaders display a public disgrace.”
The attorney said “It is time for the Town of Goshen to pull the plug on this outlaw.” He said Legoland “will never be a good corporate neighbor.”
Construction continues on the theme park.
