The completion of Little Bay Park’s comfort station is being postponed yet again, officials said.
The Parks Department said the most recent delay was due to a harsh winter and an unusually high amount of soil that had to be removed from the construction site.
The new deadline for completion is set for next spring and, once finished, it will end a project that has sputtered along for a decade.
State Sen. Tony Avella and former U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman secured millions of dollars in 2004 to install bathrooms and expand the parking lot.
As of now, visitors to the park and Fort Totten must use portable toilets.
The department finally broke ground last year and announced that the whole project would be finished this fall.
But that deadline is going to be missed, according to a spokesman for the Parks Department.
While the bathrooms won’t be completed until next year, the Parks Department plans to complete a 100-space parking lot and install bioswales to absorb stormwater runoff this fall.
The current budget for everything is $6.659 million, a higher amount than Avella and Ackerman collected in 2004.
As construction continues, the majority of the park, which is named after the bay it faces, is fenced off.
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