There’s a new twist to the saga that has become the remaking of Harris Field in Bedford Park.

Last year, the Norwood News uncovered the Parks Department’s finding of heavy lead contamination underneath the soil at Harris, which caused delays and cost the city $5.2 million to mitigate.

While the city searched for a company to do the cleanup work, residents continued to use the contaminated site, but it wasn’t until a decomposing dead body was found inside the park’s weak fencing in July that the Parks Department got serious about keeping people out.

Now reportedly free of contamination, construction of the new ball fields has restarted and Parks is hoping to complete them in time for youth baseball this spring.

The twist is that the problems at Harris are now affecting other parks in line to receive funding from the Department of Environmental Protection, which injected more than $200 million into Bronx parks in exchange for taking public parkland (in Van Cortlandt Park) to build the Croton Water Filtration Plant.

Regatta Park, which sits on the Harlem River and is more of an idea than an actual park, was supposed to receive $1.6 million to help transform it into something public and usable. But the Harris cleanup has sapped all but $93,000 earmarked for the project.

Councilman Fernando Cabrera is working with the DEP, Parks and the Department of Transportation (which currently controls the Regatta Park space) to see if they can still get the project going forward.