Santa Susana Labs discharge permits

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Water Board Grants Boeing Permits

One allows the Santa Susana lab to discharge excess water. The other
approves a cleanup plan for pollution from fuel ingredient perchlorate.

Amanda Covarrubias
Los Angeles Times
July 2, 2004

Despite protests from critics, a state regulatory agency approved a
permit Thursday that will allow Boeing's rocket-testing lab in the Simi
Hills to discharge excess water.

The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board also approved a
second permit allowing Boeing to use a biodegradable process to remove
perchlorate contamination from soil at the Santa Susana Field
Laboratory. Perchlorate is a toxic solvent in rocket fuel. 
The permits are the latest regulations placed on the 1,500-acre site,
which has been mired in detection and cleanup efforts for two decades, a
pace critics say is too slow and puts the public's health at risk.

The 56-year-old hilltop lab, where the federal government once conducted
nuclear research and which experienced a partial nuclear meltdown in
1959, is above the heavily populated Simi and San Fernando valleys.

The water board's debate Thursday centered on trichloroethylene, a
highly toxic solvent used to cool rocket engines. Officials estimate
that as much as 520,000 gallons of it was discharged directly into the
soil before the lab stopped using it in 1993.
...

for the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/state/la-me-rocket2jul02,1,667075.story?coll=la-news-state

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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