Water Board Hearing

Written By Parents vs SSFL

The Boeing Company owns 80% of the Santa Susana Field Lab, one of California’s most toxic and radioactive sites, in the hills above Los Angeles. Decades of accidents, spills, explosions, fires, and dangerous waste management, have left the site’s soil contaminated with over 300 contaminants - including long-lasting chemicals, toxic metals, and radionuclides. Boeing is in charge of all rainwater discharge that is regulated by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board.

Quick facts:

  • The Santa Susana Field Lab is a headwater of the Los Angeles River and Ventura’s Calleguas Creek Watersheds

  • Boeing has been fined over $1.5 million dollars for the site’s contamination polluting the local watersheds

  • When it rains, the Santa Susana Field Lab can discharge 187 million gallons of contaminated rainwater from the site into local waterways per day.

We are planning to attend the LA Waterboard Hearing to give public comments that we disagree with the board’s decision to reduce Boeing’s potential $480,000,000 for the last two years of polluting local watersheds to just $600,000. A full enforcement would have pushed the Boeing Company to stop making excuses and actually clean up the contamination at the source.

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What: LA Water Board Hearing
Date: Thursday, April, 23, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: LA Water Quality Control Board Office
320 West 4th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Carmel Room
Virtually:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KjOp89QsT2atzZUbjod-gQ

Parents vs SSFL

Parents living within miles of one of America’s worst nuclear accidents, the Santa Susana Field Lab, are demanding the full remediation of the site to protect their children from exposure to the lab’s contamination.

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