Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board

History of SSFL Water Board fines

Total Fines: $1,038,190

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.

2019 (after the Woolsey Fire): Boeing normally would have to pay the state as much as $154,250 in fines for 57 violations. However, a state official slashed the fine to $28,000 at Boeing's request, after the company cited an exemption for natural disasters that could not be prevented.

2010: The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board and Boeing reached an agreement that requires the company to pay $500,000 for chronic violations of the stormwater permit that governs the discharge of surface water from the field lab, a former rocket engine testing and nuclear research facility in the hills two miles south of Simi. Simi Valley Acorn: Boeing fined by water board

2009: County water authorities have decided not to fine Boeing Co. for polluted storm water runoff at its contaminated field lab near Simi Valley. Ventura County Star

2007: Boeing Co. has paid more than $471,000 for allowing excessive levels of lead, mercury and other toxins to flow from the nuclear and rocket-engine test site into surrounding canyons as well as the Arroyo Simi and Bell Creek, a tributary of the Los Angeles River. LA Times: Boeing pays fine for water quality violations

2006: Water Board issued 0 notices of violation for strontium-90 exceedances of Boeing’s pollution permit limits. Strontium-90 was reported at 8.44 pCi/L on October 18, 2005, sample from Outfall 003. Presentation to SSFL InterAgency Work Group Community Meeting

2004-2006: The state directed the Los Angeles board to fine Boeing $471,190 for 79 water-quality violations over 15 months, for higher-than-allowed levels of chromium, dioxin, lead, mercury, radioactive strontium 90 and other contaminants. The proposed fine covers 79 violations from October 2004 through January 2006. Los Angeles Daily News

2002: In a separate case, Boeing paid the L.A. regional water board $39,000 in fines for surface water pollution in 2002. Los Angeles Daily News