VENTURA, Calif. — Regional water quality regulators have fined Boeing Co. $500,000 for contaminated stormwater runoff at a former nuclear and rocket engine testing facility in eastern Ventura County.
The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board issued a consent judgment today also ordering Boeing to pay $75,000 in attorney fees and civil penalties for days when contaminants exceeded permitted limits at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory.
Boeing spokeswoman Kamara Sams Holden said the judgment covers violations from 2007 through the end of 2009.
The lab 30 miles north of downtown Los Angeles was used for nuclear and rocket testing for more than four decades. A nuclear reactor had a partial meltdown at the 2,800-acre site in 1959.
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