BOEING’s NPDES PErmit
2022 proposed NPDES permit: CURRENTLY PENDING
Boeing’s 2022 Proposed NPDES Permit will significantly weaken, or completely eliminate, the limits to contamination coming off the SSFL in the surface water stormwater runoff. The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board meeting will be Thursday, February 10th at 12:30pm.
You can watch a video discussing the permit by Melissa and Jeni.
Video: February 10, 2022 NPDES hearing (Boeing’s section begins 2:53)
Boeing: Water Monitoring Reports
Past NPDES Permit Violations
Boeing’s Monitoring Reports 2004-2021
2021 PEER Comments: 2021 Quarter 4: Twelve violations of permit limits and exceedances of permit benchmarks across six different outfalls. Measured contaminant levels were as much as twenty-four times higher than the permit level.
2018 NBC4 Los Angeles: Records reveal that 57 times in the following three months, chemicals and radioactive contamination spilled from the site at levels exceeding safety standards set by the state, according to reports that Boeing submitted to water regulators in February and May.
2007 Los Angeles Times: Boeing Co. faces a nearly $500,000 fine for allegedly allowing excessive levels of lead, mercury and other toxins to flow from its Santa Susana Field Lab in Ventura County into surrounding canyons and the Los Angeles River
FURTHER READING
Joint Comment Letter to the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, 2022: Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles, Committee to Bridge the Gap, Parents Against SSFL, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
Joint Comment Letter to the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, 2022: Heal the Bay, Los Angeles Water Keepers, Wishtoyo Foundation, Surfriders Los Angeles