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.
NBC4: Woolsey Fire Crippled Boeing Water Safety System at Toxics Site.
The Boeing Company report the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, the last quarter of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019.
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